The relation of science to art may be summed up in a brief expression:
From Science comes Prevision: from Prevision comes Action.
~ Auguste Comte
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Foreknowledge is power.
~ Auguste Comte
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There are three successive states of morality answering to the three principal stages of human life; the personal, the domestic, and the social stage.
~ Auguste Comte
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If the arts flow from science, the neglect of science must destroy the consequent arts.
~ Auguste Comte
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We are born under a load of obligations of every kind, to our predecessors, to our successors, to our contemporaries. These obligations then increase or accumulate, for it is some time before we can return any service.
~ Auguste Comte
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Every science may be exhibited under two methods or procedures, the historical and the dogmatic.
~ Auguste Comte
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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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