Auguste Comte Quotes About Observation

Quotes about: Observation

• Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

  Auguste Comte

  Different, Would Be, Facts

  Auguste Comte (1851). “The Philosophy of Mathematics”, p.26

• Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.

  Auguste Comte

  Knowledge, Science, Sound

• In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and the causes of phenomena, and applies itself to the study of their laws - that is, their invariable relations of succession and resemblance. Reasoning and observation, duly combined, are the means of this knowledge. What is now understood when we speak of an explanation of facts is simply the establishment of a connection between single phenomena and some general facts.

  Auguste Comte

  Knowledge, Mean, Science

  "Auguste Comte and Positivism: The Essential Writings".

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