"Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player……" — William Stanley Jevons
"Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of move. Thus, the longer the automaton went on playing game, the more experienced it would become by the accumulation of experimental results. Such a machine precisely represents the acquirement of experience by our nervous organization."
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William Stanley Jevons
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17 Quotes by William Stanley Jevons
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Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity.
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I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them…
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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.…
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Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of, while the visible and dense…
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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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Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
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I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
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Courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
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It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.
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