Quotes by William Stanley Jevons

William Stanley Jevons

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

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Littles

All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective interests.

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Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics. I cannot help thinking that it would be well to discard, as quickly as possible, the old troublesome double-worded name of our science.

Names

Political

Thinking

An isolated man like Alexander Selkirk might feel the benefit of a stock of provisions, tools and other means of facilitating industry, although cut off from traffic, with other men.

Cutting

Mean

Men

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.

Foolish

People

As there are so many who talk prose without knowing it, or, again, who syllogize without having the least idea what a syllogism is, so economists have long been mathematicians without being aware of the fact.

Ideas

Knowing

Long

but, in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.

Exact Sciences

Reality

Stressors

By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.

Action

Pain

Substance

Capital simply allows us to expend labour in advance.

Labour

Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of move. Thus, the longer the automaton went on playing game, the more experienced it would become by the accumulation of experimental results. Such a machine precisely represents the acquirement of experience by our nervous organization.

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Quotes by William Stanley Jevons

William Stanley Jevons

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

All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective interests.

Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics. I cannot help thinking that it would be well to discard, as quickly as possible, the old troublesome double-worded name of our science.

An isolated man like Alexander Selkirk might feel the benefit of a stock of provisions, tools and other means of facilitating industry, although cut off from traffic, with other men.

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.

As there are so many who talk prose without knowing it, or, again, who syllogize without having the least idea what a syllogism is, so economists have long been mathematicians without being aware of the fact.

but, in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.

By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.

Capital simply allows us to expend labour in advance.

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