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 Copy Share Image
A formal and consistent theory of inductive processes cannot represent the operation of every human mind in detail; it will represent an ideal mind,… — Harold Jeffreys Copy Share Image
We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics! — Harold Jeffreys Copy Share Image
What the use of P [the significance level] implies, therefore, is that a hypothesis that may be true may be rejected because it has… — Harold Jeffreys Copy Share Image
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… — Harold Jeffreys Copy Share Image
The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop. — Harold Jeffreys Copy Share Image
All suggested accounts of the origin of the solar system are subject to serious objections. The conclusion in the present state of the subject… — Harold Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Variation must be taken as random until there is positive evidence to the contrary. — Harold Jeffreys Copy Share Image
An observation, strictly, is only a sensation. Nobody means that we should reject everything but sensations. But as soon as we go beyond sensations… — Harold Jeffreys Copy Share Image
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