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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Our intellectual resources are too narrow, and the universe is too complex, to leave any hope that it will ever be within our power to carry scientific perfection to its last degree of simplicity.
~ Auguste Comte

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Reasoning and observation, duly combined, are the means of this knowledge.
~ Auguste Comte

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The dead govern the living.
~ 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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There is no inquiry which is not finally reducible to a question of numbers.
~ 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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Social positivism only accepts duties, for all and towards all. Its constant social viewpoint cannot include any notion of rights, for such notion always rests on individuality.
~ Auguste Comte

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

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