46 Quotes by William Stanley Jevons

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

It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions.

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.

The more refined and intellectual our needs become, the less they are capable of satiety.

My principal work now lies in tracing out the exact nature and conditions of utility. It seems strange indeed that economists have not bestowed more minute attention on a subject which doubtless furnishes the true key to the problems of economics.

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.

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

I feel quite unable to adopt the opinion that the moment goods pass into the possession of the consumer they cease altogether to have the attributes of capital.

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