Quote of Auguste Comte - From science comes foresight, from foresight...

Biography - Auguste Comte:

French philosopher and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism.
Born: 1798 - Died: 1857
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

From science comes foresight, from foresight action.

Auguste Comte - Course of Positive Philosophy

Translation

(French, German)

Science, d'où prévoyance; prévoyance, d'où action.

Auguste Comte - Cours de philosophie positive

Die Wissenschaft führt zur Voraussicht; Voraussicht führt zum Handeln.

Auguste Comte - Die Soziologie. Die positive Philosophie im Auszug.

Quotes about science:

Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel /

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov /

Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation /

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

Michel de Montaigne - Essays /

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant /

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Paul Valéry /

science

All about science...

Quotes about action:

I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.

Baruch Spinoza - Tractatus politicus /

One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.

Paul Valéry - Tel quel /

action

Often he who omits an act does injustice, not only he who commits an act.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding /

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Hannah Arendt /

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

Henri Bergson /

All about action...

Auguste Comte also said...

One does not know completely a science as long as one does not know its history.

Auguste Comte - Course of Positive Philosophy /

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