We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even … - William Stanley Jevons

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You know, I thought about that a lot these last couple of years," She says in a choked voice. "About who was there for you. Who held your hand while you grieved for all that you'd lost?

William Stanley Jevons

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.

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Ina regular and constant employment the greatest result will always be gained by such a rate as allows a workman each day,or each week at the most, to recover all fatigue and recommence with an undiminished store of energy.

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Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of move. Thus, the longer the automaton went on playing game, the more experienced it would become by the accumulation of experimental results. Such a machine precisely represents the acquirement of experience by our nervous organization.

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In short, I do not write for mathematicians, nor as a mathematician, but as an economist wishing to convince other economists that their science can only be satisfactorily treated on an explicitly mathematical basis.

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

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

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