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Quotes from The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte — Auguste Comte

1798–1857 France

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[F]inding direct measurement so often impossible, we are compelled to devise means of doing it indirectly. Hence arose Mathematics.

The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte (1853)

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.

The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte (1853)

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