 Essentially, despite his respect for mathematics and science, he pioneered the French movement of scepticism towards the use of scientific methods to understand human nature and metaphysical reality.Positivism, which, for instance, the French sociologist Durkheim was interested in at the time, was not appropriate, he argued.Unlike later philosophers, Bergson was highly influenced by biology, particularly Darwin's "Origin of Species", which was published in the year Bergson was born.