Quotes from William Stanley Jevons

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

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 whole question of the steam engine is one of economy. It's development consist of nothing but the quest for greater efficiency.

The theory of Economics must begin with a correct theory of consumption.

but, in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.

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

A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.

Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to find some place in every course of education.