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Sir Harold Jeffreys
(22 Apr 1891 - 18 Mar 1989)
English astronomer, geophysicist and mathematician.
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Science Quotes by Sir Harold Jeffreys (2)
The real difficulty about vulcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.
— Sir Harold Jeffreys
Earthquakes and Mountains, 2nd edition (1950), 187.
See also: | Volcano (14)
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.
— Sir Harold Jeffreys
Theory of Probability (1939), 316.
See also: | Experiment (199) | Hypothesis (83) | Observation (142) | Probability (33) | Result (25) | Statistics (49)
