Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.
True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result.
[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.
