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 Arguing 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 Accumulation 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
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 Branches Copy Share Image
Truth indeed is sacred; but, as Pilate said, "What is truth?" Show us the undoubted infallible criterion of absolute truth, and we… — William Stanley Jevons Absence Copy Share Image
There are many portions of economical doctrine which appear to me as scientific in form as they are consonant with facts. — William Stanley Jevons Consonants 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
The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility. — William Stanley Jevons Conceiving Copy Share Image
I used to think I should like to be a bookbinder or bookseller it seemed to me a most delightful trade and… — William Stanley Jevons Age Copy Share Image
Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at the truth are among the first requisites of discovery. — William Stanley Jevons Abundance Copy Share Image
My principal work now lies in tracing out the exact nature and conditions of utility. It seems strange indeed that economists have… — William Stanley Jevons Attention Copy Share Image
Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity. — William Stanley Jevons Accounts Copy Share Image
we often observe that there is abundance of capital to be had at low rates of interest, while there are also large… — William Stanley Jevons Abundance 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 Accomplish Copy Share Image
A spade may be made of any size, and if the same number of strokes be made in the hour, the requisite… — William Stanley Jevons Blades Copy Share Image
In short, I do not write for mathematicians, nor as a mathematician, but as an economist wishing to convince other economists that… — William Stanley Jevons Bases 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
The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize… — William Stanley Jevons Calculus 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 Adam 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 Altered Copy Share Image
Capital simply allows us to expend labour in advance. — William Stanley Jevons Labour Copy Share Image
One pound invested for five years gives the same result as five pounds invested for one year, the product being five pound… — William Stanley Jevons Five 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
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
