The dead governs the living.

quote by Auguste Comte
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!

To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.

quote by Auguste Comte
Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy!

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

quote by Auguste Comte
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

quote by Auguste Comte
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!

Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry... If mathematical analysis should ever had prominent place in chemistry - an aberration, which is happily almost impossible - it would be a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science.

Auguste Comte in Philosophie Positive (1832)
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!