"Value is the most invincible and impalpable of……" — William Stanley Jevons
"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."
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17 Quotes by William Stanley Jevons
William Stanley Jevons has 17 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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 whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the…
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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…
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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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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…
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets,…
— John Desmond Bernal
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We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such…
— Michael Bloomberg
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We know there are billions of stars and planets literally out there, and the universe is getting bigger. We know…
— William J. Clinton
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Do not great Bodies conserve their heat the longest, their parts heating one another, and may not great dense and…
— Isaac Newton
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All things are aggregations of atoms that dance & by their movement produce sound. When the rhythm of the dance…
— Alexandra David-Neel
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At 8 o'clock in the morning a dense throng of workers - almost 10,000 - assembled in the square, which…
— Unknown Author
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Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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A lot of people describe me as chubby, which seems so easy, so first-choice. Or stocky. Fair-skinned. Tow-headed. There are…
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
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To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes…
— Ivars Peterson
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An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that's been pharmaceutically duped into…
— Manohla Dargis
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We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after…
— Jules Verne
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Geoffrey Hill may be the strongest and most original English poet of the second half of our fading century, although…
— John Hollander
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