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We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing complications and apparent interruptions.

We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing complications and apparent interruptions.

William Stanley Jevons

Law, Economics, Operations

William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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.

William Stanley Jevons

Thinking, Names, Political

William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

A spade may be made of any size, and if the same number of strokes be made in the hour, the requisite exertion will vary nearly as the cube of the length of the blade.

William Stanley Jevons

Numbers, May, Cubes

William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.192

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

William Stanley Jevons

Children, Learning, Science

William Stanley Jevons (1883). “Methods of Social Reform: And Other Papers”

Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in a parallel manner, and enable us to infer of one class of phenomena what we know of another. It has thus happened on several occasions that the discovery of an unsuspected analogy between two branches of knowledge has been the starting point for a rapid course of discovery.

William Stanley Jevons

Knowledge, Science, Discovery

William Stanley Jevons (1874). “The Principles of Science: Book IV. Inductive investigation. Book V. Generalization, analogy, and classification. Book VI. Reflections on the results and limits of scientific method”, p.288

It is clear that Economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science ... simply because it deals with quantities... As the complete theory of almost every other science involves the use of calculus, so we cannot have a true theory of Economics without its aid.

William Stanley Jevons

Education, Statistics, Use

"The Theory of Political Economy". Book by William Stanley Jevons, Chapter I, Introduction, 1871.

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

William Stanley Jevons

Doctrine, Facts, Form

William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.6

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

William Stanley Jevons

Development, Economic, Form

William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

I consider that interest is determined by the increment of produce which it enables a labourer to obtain, and is altogether independent of the total return which he receives for this labour.

William Stanley Jevons

Independent, Return, Determined

William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.240

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.

William Stanley Jevons

Opinion, Moments, Attributes

William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.245

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.

William Stanley Jevons

Mean, Cutting, Men

William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)