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Auguste Comte

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Biography - Auguste Comte:

French philosopher and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism.
Born: 1798 - Died: 1857
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

One does not know completely a science as long as one does not know its history.



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Translation

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French
On ne connaît pas complètement une science tant qu'on n'en sait pas l'histoire.

German
Man erkennt eine Wissenschaft nicht vollständig, wenn man ihre Geschichte nicht kennt.




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Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.






Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.





All I know is that I know nothing.





The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.











Quotes for: science


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Quotes about science:


Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.





The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.





Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science.





Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.





Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.





Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.











Quotes for: History


Quotes

Quotes about history:


What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.





Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.





Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.





Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.





What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.





If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.











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From science comes foresight, from foresight action.












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