Every Science Consists In The

After Montesquieu, The Next Great Addition To Sociology (which Is The Term I May Be Allowed To Invent To Designate Social Physics) Was Made By Condorcet, Proceeding On The Views Suggested By His Illustrious Friend Turgot.

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 Hold A Prominent Place In Chemistry -- An Aberration Which Is Happily Almost Impossible -- It Would Occasion A Rapid And Widespread Degeneration Of That Science.

The Sacred Formula Of Positivism: Love As A Principle, The Order As A Foundation, And Progress As A Goal.

All Good Intellects Have Repeated, Since Bacon's Time, That There Can Be No Real Knowledge But That Which Is Based On Observed Facts. This Is Incontestable, In Our Present Advanced Stage; But, If We Look Back To The Primitive Stage Of Human Knowledge, We Shall See That It Must Have Been Otherwise Then. If It Is True That Every Theory Must Be Based Upon Observed Facts; It Is Equally True That Facts Can Not Be Observed Without The Guidance Of Some Theory. Without Such Guidance, Our Facts Would Be Desultory And Fruitless; We Could Not Retain Them: For The Most Part We Could Not Even Perceive Them.

All Good Intellects Have Repeated, Since Bacon's Time, That There Can Be No Real Knowledge But Which Is Based On Observed Facts.