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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.

William Stanley Jevons

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William Stanley Jevons (1 September 1835 – 13 August 1882) was an English economist and logician.

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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. - William Stanley Jevons

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