Positivism – Quotes

Such evidence is not

Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements. Chauncey Wright

The sacred formula of

The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal. Auguste Comte

Positivism is a theory

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. Auguste Comte

POSITIVISM- A philosophy that

POSITIVISM- A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer. Ambrose Bierce

I am not a

I am not a positivist. Positivism states that what cannot be observed does not exist. This conception is scientifically indefensible, for it is impossible to make valid affirmations of what people ‘can’ or ‘cannot’ observe. One would have to say ‘only what we observe exists,’ which is obviously false. Albert Einstein

I do not believe

I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.
A.J. Ayer