Logic should no longer be considered an elegant and learned accomplishment; it should take its place as an indispensable study for every… — William Stanley Jevons Accomplishment Copy Share Image
Over-production is not possible in all branches of industry at once, but it is possible in some as compared to others. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would… — William Stanley Jevons Expectations Copy Share Image
A correct theory is the first step towards improvement, by showing what we need and what we might accomplish. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics. I cannot help… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as absolute cost of labour; it is all a matter of comparison. Every one gets the most… — William Stanley Jevons Absolutes Copy Share Image
There are a multitude of allied branches of knowledge connected with mans condition; the relation of these to political economy is analogous… — William Stanley Jevons Astronomy Copy Share Image
It is clear that Economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science ... simply because… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
PLEASURE and pain are undoubtedly the ultimate objects of the calculus of economics. To satisfy our wants to the utmost with the… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an… — William Stanley Jevons Certainty Copy Share Image
Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at truth are among the first requisites of discovery; but the erroneous guesses must almost… — William Stanley Jevons Abundance Copy Share Image
The whole result of continued labour is not often consumed and enjoyed in a moment; the result generally lasts for a certain… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
The laws of thought are natural laws with which we have no power to interfere, and which are of course not to… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
The conclusion to which I am ever more clearly coming is that the only hope of attaining a true system of economics… — William Stanley Jevons Assumption Copy Share Image
I consider that interest is determined by the increment of produce which it enables a labourer to obtain, and is altogether independent… — William Stanley Jevons Determined Copy Share Image
As there are so many who talk prose without knowing it, or, again, who syllogize without having the least idea what a… — William Stanley Jevons Economics Copy Share Image
Labour once spent has no influence on the future value of any article; it isgone and lost for ever. In commerce bygones… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
In matters of philosophy and science authority has ever been the great opponent of truth. A despotic calm is usually the triumph… — William Stanley Jevons Anarchy Copy Share Image
You will perceive that economy, scientifically speaking, is a very contracted science; it is in fact a sort of vague mathematics which… — William Stanley Jevons Cause and effect Copy Share Image
