The mathematical thermology created by Fourier may tempt us to hope that, as he has estimated the temperature of the space in which we move, me may in time ascertain the mean temperature of the heavenly bodies: but I regard this order of facts as for ever excluded from our recognition. We can never learn their internal constitution, nor, in regard to some of them, how heat is absorbed by their atmosphere. We may therefore define Astronomy as the science by which we discover the laws of the geometrical and mechanical phenomena presented by the heavenly bodies.
In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches. - Auguste Comte
In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.
- Auguste Comte
Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education. - Auguste Comte
Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observ… - Auguste Comte
Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observ…
Everything is relative; and only that is absolute. - Auguste Comte
Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
Woman is the most moral element in all humanity. - Auguste Comte
Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
Foreknowledge is power. - Auguste Comte
Foreknowledge is power.
The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal. - Auguste Comte
The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction. - Auguste Comte
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
Know yourself to improve yourself. - Auguste Comte
Know yourself to improve yourself.
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