Men Are Not Allowed To Think Freely

The Only Real Life Is The Collective Life Of The Race; Individual Life Has No Existence Except As An Abstraction.

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.

In The Final, The Positive, State, The Mind Has Given Over The Vain Search After Absolute Notions, The Origin And Destination Of The Universe, And The Causes Of Phenomena, And Applies Itself To The Study Of Their Laws - That Is, Their Invariable Relations Of Succession And Resemblance. Reasoning And Observation, Duly Combined, Are The Means Of This Knowledge. What Is Now Understood When We Speak Of An Explanation Of Facts Is Simply The Establishment Of A Connection Between Single Phenomena And Some General Facts.

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.

Every Science Consists In The Coordination Of Facts; If The Different Observations Were Entirely Isolated, There Would Be No Science.