William Stanley Jevons Quotes

You will perceive that economy, scientifically speaking, is a very contracted science; it is in fact a sort of vague mathematics which calculates the causes and effects of man's industry, and shows how it may be best applied.

William Stanley Jevons

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• The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Political
  • Better
  • Economy

• The economy needs thriving, job-creating small businesses, but excessive and ill-considered regulations too often get in the way of growth.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Job
  • Small
  • Growth

• We can pretend that China is not there. But China is there, and unless we put our economy on the right track, it is going to overwhelm us completely.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Economy
  • China
  • Right Track

• A Central Bank official said that Q-coin did not affect the renminbi; it adds vibrancy to the economy.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Said
  • Economy
  • Bank

• As long as they are working, they should be legalized. I admire so much each and every migrant. They are the most loyal workers in the U.S. economy. They build the homes of those who are attacking them.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Long
  • Economy
  • Admire

• To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Facts
  • Legal
  • Lawyers

• Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • World
  • Economy
  • Legal

• I have either run private equity funded companies or been a partner in a private equity fund since 1982. I've had a front row view of the vital role private equity continues to play in building and keeping American businesses competitive in the global economy.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
  • American
  • Economy
  • Building

• Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Me
  • Economy
  • Starting

• Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Up
  • Time
  • Risk

• I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Always
  • Idea
  • Mathematics

• As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

  

  Abraham Robinson
  • May
  • True
  • Small

• Illinois' economy will benefit from the modernization of the power sector.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Power
  • Economy
  • Will

• Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Today
  • Economy
  • Tomorrow

• Facts cannot be replaced by opinion.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Opinion
  • Facts
  • Cannot

• People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
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• Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Facts
  • Errors
  • Overthrow

• My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Power
  • Opinion
  • Habit

• I would classify myself as, being an interpreter, basically, of what other people have written. I find something that I feel comfortable in – that I can put myself into – and that’s what I do, play it. I express myself through the music that someone else wrote. With the availability of so much good music, there’s no reason to play mediocre music just because you wrote it yourself, which some people do.

  

  Art Farmer
  • Music
  • Express
  • Interpreter

• I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • American
  • Myself

• One of the things that could be exciting about this next phase of Canadian politics is if we could maybe have co-leaders.

  

  Avi Lewis
  • Politics
  • Canadian
  • Co-Leaders

• You aren't what you eat - you are what you don't poop.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Eat
  • Poop

• You will perceive that economy, scientifically speaking, is a very contracted science; it is in fact a sort of vague mathematics which calculates the causes and effects of man's industry, and shows how it may be best applied.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Facts
  • Economy
  • Causes