Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

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.

The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.

Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry.... if mathematical analysis should ever hold a prominent place in chemistry -- an aberration which is happily almost impossible -- it would occasion a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science.

The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.

Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.