"Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with……" — William Stanley Jevons
"Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in a parallel manner, and enable us to infer of one class of phenomena what we know of another. It has thus happened on several occasions that the discovery of an unsuspected analogy between two branches of knowledge has been the starting point for a rapid course of discovery."
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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 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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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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As a general rule, it is foolish to do just what other people are doing, because there are almost sure…
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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