Contrary Quote by Harold Jeffreys Download Open image “Variation must be taken as random until there is positive evidence to the contrary.” — Harold Jeffreys ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contrary Evidence Taken Variation
“Only a minority of biologists today hold that the variation of evolution cannot be random. In this point the minority are on more solid… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
Postulate 3. Assignable causes of variation may be found and eliminated. — Walter A. Shewhart Copy Share Image
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Since mechanically obtained randomness contains all kinds of possible permutations, including the most regular ones, it cannot be relied upon always to exhibit a… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“But natural experiments don’t have to be explicitly random, like lotteries. Once you start looking for randomness, you see it everywhere—and can use it… — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small the chance… — Vann Chow Copy Share Image
It struck me that favourable variations would tend to be preserved and unfavourable ones tend to be destroyed — Charles Darwin 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
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
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
No truly conscious human being sabotages himself - it's impossible, because it's contrary to Nature. — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
If you abide in the love of Christ, rooted in the faith, you will encounter, even amid setbacks and suffering, the source of true… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ I fight for the things I believe… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
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