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Auguste Comte [1798-1857] French

Rank: 102
Sociologist, Philosopher

Isidore-Auguste-Marie-François-Xavier Comte was a French philosopher who founded the discipline of sociology and the doctrine of positivism. He is sometimes regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term.

Science, Knowledge

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.	Knowledge	101
Know yourself to improve yourself.		102
Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?		103
Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist between them.	Science	104
The dead govern the living.		105
Demography is destiny.		106
Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.		107
The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' from the language of philosophy.		108
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.		109
Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.	Science	110
To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.	Science	111

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