Auguste Comte Quotes


Foreknowledge is power.


Context

Modern science with its mathematical structures allows more and more predictions of the world and in some ways is like seeing into the future.


Citations

Auguste Comte, 1798-1857, French Mathematician & Philosopher, Quoted in Alan Lindsay Mackay A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

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Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
  • Born: January 19, 1798
  • Died: September 5, 1857
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Sociologist

Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte was a French philosopher and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term. Comte's ideas were also fundamental to the development of sociology; indeed, he invented the term and treated that discipline as the crowning achievement of the sciences.