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Values Quotes by William Stanley Jevons
- The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired from like objects;…
- Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of, while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.
- Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility.
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