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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In the primitive state of human knowledge there is no regular division of intellectual labour. Every student cultivates all the sciences. As knowledge accrues, the sciences part off; and students devote themselves each to some one branch.
~ Auguste Comte

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The progress of the individual mind is not only an illustration, but an indirect evidence of that of the general mind.
~ Auguste Comte

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There is no inquiry which is not finally reducible to a question of numbers.
~ Auguste Comte

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