Bad Predictions
"We must keep carefully apart the idea of the solar system and that of
the universe, and be always assured that our only true interest is in
the former. Within this boundary alone is astronomy the supreme and
positive science that we have determined it to be...the stars serve us
scientifically only as providing positions with which we may compare
the interior movements of our system.'<
- Auguste Comte, Cours de Philosphie Positive, 1835.
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