William Stanley Jevons Quotes

It is clear that Economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science ... simply because it deals with quantities... As the complete theory of almost every other science involves the use of calculus, so we cannot have a true theory of Economics without its aid.

William Stanley Jevons

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• Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Eyes
  • Worst
  • Blind

• When you look at the roles I've done and the roles coming up, they're all strong. I guess I'm more drawn to that than that kind of submissive role females can be categorised as.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Done
  • Strong

• Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Humanity
  • Happiness
  • Ugly

• I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • She
  • Happy
  • Girl

• If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Life
  • Music
  • Help

• The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • People
  • Success
  • Bored

• I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Die
  • Beginning
  • Hands

• Whenever someone says to me, 'Are you for or against Common Core,' the first question I ask is, 'What do you think Common Core is?' You will get a different answer from every single person. You will literally get a different answer.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Different
  • Think
  • Me

• The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • History
  • Nation
  • Most

• Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • World
  • Security

• I feel like with 'Chuck,' because it was a comedy-based show, it was more cartoon-ish. It was just more playful. We had a lot more fun with it. There was a lot of silliness in there. There were serious moments, as well, and there was a lot of heart in that show, but its baseline was comedy.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Heart
  • Fun
  • Comedy

• My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • College
  • Football

• Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • War
  • Mistake
  • Adolescence

• When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Road
  • Gold
  • Greatest

• And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I'm not stuck in a time warp, because I can use as many of the old songs as I want to, just the favorites.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Want
  • Clothes
  • Minds

• By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very middle-class Indian upbringing. We were never made to realise who we were or that my father and mother were huge stars - it was a very normal house, and I'd like my daughter to have the same thing.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • God
  • Family
  • Mother

• If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Good
  • Faith

• When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.

  

  Vladimir Kramnik
  • Speak
  • Chess
  • Clarity

• I took my first creative writing class when I was 24, then went onto to get a graduate degree in poetry. I've sort of never looked back from there.

  

  Paula McLain
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.

  

  Klas Pontus Arnoldson
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• 'Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes' was really well done.

  

  Christopher Miller
  • Done

• It is clear that Economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science ... simply because it deals with quantities... As the complete theory of almost every other science involves the use of calculus, so we cannot have a true theory of Economics without its aid.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Education
  • Economics
  • Aids