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Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at the truth are among the first requisites of discovery.

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Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity.
Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in…
I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the…
The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired…
Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of…
The child which overbalances itself in learning to walk is experimenting on the law of gravity.
It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists…
Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of, while the visible and dense matter remains…
Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at the truth are among the first requisites of discovery.
It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.
Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility.
As a general rule, it is foolish to do just what other people are doing, because there are almost sure to be…

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The best of seers is he who guesses well. — Euripides
Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at the truth are among the first requisites of discovery. — William Stanley Jevons
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