Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
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.