To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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.
Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
nd now that man's history has been for the first time systematically considered as a whole, and has been found to be, like all other phenomena, subject to invariable laws, the preparatory labours of modern Science are ended.