Harold Jeffreys quotes
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“The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.”
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“What the use of P [the significance level] implies, therefore, is that a hypothesis that may be true may be rejected because it has not predicted observable results that have not occurred.”
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“All suggested accounts of the origin of the solar system are subject to serious objections. The conclusion in the present state of the subject would be that the system cannot exist.”
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“A formal and consistent theory of inductive processes cannot represent the operation of every human mind in detail; it will represent an ideal mind, but it will help the actual mind to approximate that ideal.”
-- Harold JeffreysSource : Harold Jeffreys (1998). “The Theory of Probability”, p.421, OUP Oxford
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“There are some current 'theories' that, when divested of begged questions, reduce to the non-controversial statement, 'Here are some facts and there may be some relation between them.'”
-- Harold JeffreysSource : Harold Jeffreys (1998). “The Theory of Probability”, p.419, OUP Oxford
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“Variation must be taken as random until there is positive evidence to the contrary.”
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“An observation, strictly, is only a sensation. Nobody means that we should reject everything but sensations. But as soon as we go beyond sensations we are making inferences.”
-- Harold JeffreysSource : Harold Jeffreys (1998). “The Theory of Probability”, p.412, OUP Oxford
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“We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics!”
-- Harold JeffreysSource : Harold Jeffreys, Bertha Jeffreys (1999). “Methods of Mathematical Physics”, p.2, Cambridge University Press
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“There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.”
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Source : "AS Byatt: woman of letters and ...science!". "All In The Mind" with Antonia Byatt, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2010.
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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“I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.”
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“When energy prices go up, the difficulty of projecting demand also goes up - uncertainty goes up.”
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“I had to escape the destruction of my fathers bankruptcy and all that difficulty.”
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