William Stanley Jevons quotes - page 4

As a general rule, it is foolish to do just what other people are doing, because there are almost sure to be too many people doing the same thing. (William Stanley Jevons)
A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
Labour once spent has no influence on the future value of any article; it isgone and lost for ever. In commerce bygones are forever bygones; and we are alwaysstarting clearat each moment, judging the values of things with a view to future utility. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
The point of equilibrium will be known by the criterion that an infinitely small amount of commodity exchanged in addition, at the same rate, will bring neither gain nor loss of utility. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an exact science. ...in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
The child which overbalances itself in learning to walk is experimenting on the law of gravity. View quote
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Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
Commerce is but a means to an end, the diffusion of civilization and wealth. To allow commerce to proceed until the source of civilization is weakened and overturned is like killing the goose to get the golden egg. Is the immediate creation of material wealth to be our only object? View quote
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The new and wonderful results of the late Dr. Boole's mathematical system of Logic appear to develop themselves as most plain and evident consequences of the self-same process of substitution, when applied to the Primary Laws of Thought. Should my notion be true, a vast mass of technicalities may be swept from our logical text-books, and yet the small remaining part of logical doctrine will prove far more useful than all the learning of the Schoolmen. View quote
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A correspondent, Captain Charles Christie R.E., to whom I have shown these sections after they were printed, objects reasonably enough that commodity should not have been represented by M, or Mass, but by some symbol, for instance Q, which would include quantity of space or time or force, in fact almost any kind of quantity. (William Stanley Jevons)