Every attempt to employ mathematical...

Auguste comte, philosophie positive (1830) - every attempt to employ mathematical methods in...
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 had prominent place in chemistry - An aberration, which is happily almost impossible - It would be a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science.
Auguste Comte, Philosophie Positive (1830)


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