Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Harold Jeffreys

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Sir Harold Jeffreys, FRS was a British mathematician, statistician, geophysicist, and astronomer. His book, Theory of Probability, which was first published in 1939, played an important role in the revival of the objective Bayesian view of probability.

British - Mathematician | April 22, 1891 - March 18, 1989

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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 Jeffreys

Variation must be taken as random until there is positive evidence to the contrary.

Harold Jeffreys

We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics!

Harold Jeffreys

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.

Harold Jeffreys

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.

Harold Jeffreys

The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.

Harold Jeffreys

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 Jeffreys

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 Jeffreys

Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Harold Jeffreys

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