Ideas Govern The World, Or Throw It

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.

After Montesquieu, The Next Great Addition To Sociology (which Is The Term I May Be Allowed To Invent To Designate Social Physics) Was Made By Condorcet, Proceeding On The Views Suggested By His Illustrious Friend Turgot.

Ideas Govern The World, Or Throw It Into Chaos.

C'este Donc Par L'étude Des Mathématiques, Et Seulement Par Elle, Que L'on Peut Se Faire Une Idée Juste Et Approfondie De Ce Que C'est Qu'une Science.

The Mathematical Thermology Created By Fourier May Tempt Us To Hope That, As He Has Estimated The Temperature Of The Space In Which We Move, Me May In Time Ascertain The Mean Temperature Of The Heavenly Bodies: But I Regard This Order Of Facts As For Ever Excluded From Our Recognition. We Can Never Learn Their Internal Constitution, Nor, In Regard To Some Of Them, How Heat Is Absorbed By Their Atmosphere. We May Therefore Define Astronomy As The Science By Which We Discover The Laws Of The Geometrical And Mechanical Phenomena Presented By The Heavenly Bodies.