46 Quotes by William Stanley Jevons

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.

Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility.

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.

Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at the truth are among the first requisites of discovery.

Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of, while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.

Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity.

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

Property is only another name for monopoly.

Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to find some place in every course of education.