To Understand A Science It Is Necessary

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.

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 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.

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