There are many portions of economical doctrine which appear to me as scientific in form as they are consonant with facts. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
In any case I hold that there must arise a science of the development of economic forms and relations. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which… — 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 Copy Share Image
We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing… — William Stanley Jevons 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 Copy Share Image
Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
I protest against deference to any man, whether John Stuart Mill, or Adam Smith, or Aristotle, being allowed to check inquiry. Our… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the… — 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 ... simply because… — William Stanley Jevons 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 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 Copy Share Image
but, in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
The child which overbalances itself in learning to walk is experimenting on the law of gravity. — 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
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
It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in… — 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
All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective… — 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 be needed. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
“The more refined and intellectual our needs become, the less they are capable of satiety.” — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business… — 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 isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Ina regular and constant employment the greatest result will always be gained by such a rate as allows a workman each day,or each week… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory. — William Stanley Jevons 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 syllogism is,… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
In any case I hold that there must arise a science of the development of economic forms and relations. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
The point of equilibrium will be known by the criterion that an infinitely small amount of commodity exchanged in addition, at the same rate,… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
