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.


The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method (ed. 1874)

William Stanley Jevons Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...