William Stanley Jevons Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• When quite young I can remember I had no thought or wish of surpassing others. I was rather taken with a liking of little arts and bits of learning. My mother carefully fostered a liking for botany, giving me a small microscope and many books, which I yet have. Strange as it may seem, I now believe that botany and the natural system, by exercising discrimination of kinds, is the best of logical exercises. What I may do in logic is perhaps derived from that early attention to botany.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Mother, Art, Believe

  William Stanley Jevons's reflections on his earlier life, written when he was 27 (December 1862); later published in "Letters and Journal of W. Stanley Jevons" edited by Harriet A. Jevons, his wife (p. 11), 1886.

• I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the theory of probability. Perfect knowledge alone can give certainty, and in nature perfect knowledge would be infinite knowledge, which is clearly beyond our capacities. We have, therefore, to content ourselves with partial knowledge - knowledge mingled with ignorance, producing doubt.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  "The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method".

• One pound invested for five years gives the same result as five pounds invested for one year, the product being five pound years.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Years, Giving, Pounds

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

• What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Giving, Expectations, Would Be

  William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.218

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