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Numerical precision is the soul of science..

William Stanley Jevons
No inductive conclusions are more than probable.

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The man of one idea has but a single chance of truth.

William Stanley Jevons
Capital simply allows us to expend labour in advance.

William Stanley Jevons
But, in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.

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Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity.

William Stanley Jevons
I shall endeavor to show that induction is really the inverse process of deduction.

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

William Stanley Jevons
It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.

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The child which overbalances itself in learning to walk is experimenting on the law of gravity.

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The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.

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Were this indeed a Chaotic Universe, the powers of mind employed in science would be useless to us.

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In any case I hold that there must arise a science of the development of economic forms and relations.

William Stanley Jevons
It is the prerogative of Intellect to discover what is uniform and unchanging in the phenomena around us.

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That in the same open market, at any one moment, there cannot be two prices for the same kind of article,

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The dignity of intellect begins with the power of separating points of agreement from those of difference.

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A correct theory is the first step towards improvement, by showing what we need and what we might accomplish.

William Stanley Jevons
Simplicity is naturally agreeable to a mind of limited powers, but to an infinite mind all things are simple.

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Experience gives us the materials of knowledge: induction digests those materials, and yields us general knowledge.

William Stanley Jevons
There is little use in obtaining exact measurements of an effect unless we can also exactly measure its conditions.

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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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The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility.

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Over-production is not possible in all branches of industry at once, but it is possible in some as compared to others.

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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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There are many portions of economical doctrine which appear to me as scientific in form as they are consonant with facts.

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Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.

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One pound invested for five years gives the same result as five pounds invested for one year, the product being five pound years.

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So-called original research is now regarded as a profession, adopted by hundreds or men, and communicated by a system of training.

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One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.

William Stanley Jevons
Every strange phenomenon may be a secret spring which, if rightly touched, will open the door to new chambers in the palace of nature.

William Stanley Jevons