Our direct natural power over everything about us is extremely weak, and altogether disproportioned to our needs.
~ Auguste Comte

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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
~ Auguste Comte

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The certainty of science, and our precision in the knowledge of it, are two very different things, which have been too often confounded.
~ Auguste Comte

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Psychologists, by dint of reading the precepts of Bacon and the discourses of Descartes, have mistaken their own dreams for science.
~ Auguste Comte

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It is only through Mathematics that we can thoroughly understand what true science is.
~ Auguste Comte

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Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation.
~ Auguste Comte

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