Harold Jeffreys Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Harold Jeffreys

#4. No logo, and you don't advertise for anyone. I don't believe in imposed luxury. I believe in built luxury. Something you refine with your own taste. Mass luxury is not my luxury.

Lapo Elkann

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

Harold Jeffreys

#6. 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

#7. I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.

Joan Rivers

#8. 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

#9. A room to myself is a luxury that I do not always enjoy.

Frances Harper

#10. Perhaps I was hosting my own personal sexual revolution. You know the kind that will not be televised.

Sabrina Childress

#11. 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

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

Harold Jeffreys

#13. Madness is always fascinating, for it reveals the ungluing we all secretly fear: the mind taking off from the body, the possibility that the magnet that attaches us to a context in the world can lose its grip.

Molly Haskell

#14. Everything that could be said already has; I'm just trying to say it differently.

Eric Hutchinson