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)

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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