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William Stanley Jevons has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity.
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Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in…
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I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the…
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The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired…
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Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of…
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The child which overbalances itself in learning to walk is experimenting on the law of gravity.
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It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists…
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Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of, while the visible and dense matter remains…
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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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It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.
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Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility.
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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 only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear,…
— Byron Katie
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We are apt to think we know what time is because we can measure it, but no sooner do we reflect upon…
— Robert Morrison MacIver
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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
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To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.
— Avital Ronell
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You don’t return people’s smiles—it’s perfectly clear to you that people can smile and smile and still be villains.
— Helen Oyeyemi
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Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to…
— Amy Tan
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Perfectly clear, it’s part of our plans, we’re eliminating the Jews, exterminating them. Ha! A small matter.
— Heinrich Himmler
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You don't win by just being against things, you only win by being for things and making your message perfectly clear.
— Margaret Thatcher
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I think part of my success as an editor came from never worrying about a fact, a cause, an atmosphere. It was…
— Diana Vreeland
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It's perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It's something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and…
— Hugh Hefner
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You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it…
— Paul Valery
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When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want.
— Byron Katie
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