Editing Auguste Comte (section)

===Predictions===
Auguste Comte is well known for writing in his book ''The Positive Philosophy'' that people would never learn the chemical composition of the stars. This has been called a very poor prediction regarding human limits in science.  In thirty years people were beginning to learn the composition of stars through spectroscopy.<ref>[http://spiff.rit.edu/richmond/asras/chemcomp_i/chemcomp_i.html How do we know the composition of stars?]</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.faculty.virginia.edu/rwoclass/astr1210/comte.html|title=Comte on Astronomy|website=www.faculty.virginia.edu|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423141649/https://faculty.virginia.edu/rwoclass/astr1210/comte.html|archive-date=2021-04-23|url-status=dead}}</ref>