Harold Jeffreys Quotes
- 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…
- The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…