Accounts Quote 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; and it is only so far, therefore, as we can discover and register resemblances that we can turn our observations to account.” quote by William Stanley Jevons — Download Open image

“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; and it is only so far, therefore, as we can discover and register resemblances that we can turn our observations to account.”

William Stanley Jevons

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What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed.

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The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business of the country would be thrown out of gear. Before the era of steam-engines, windmills were tried for draining mines; but though they were powerful machines, they were very irregular, so that in a long tract…

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It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions.

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By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.

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A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.

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