William Stanley Jevons Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired from like objects; and it is only so far, therefore, as we can discover and register resemblances that we can turn our observations to account.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Knowledge, Science, Observation

  William Stanley Jevons (1874). “The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method”, p.1

• 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.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Matter, Ghost, Dense

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

  William Stanley Jevons

  Reflection, Inquiry, Opinion

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

• 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.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Views, Judging, Forever

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