Top 6 Harold Jeffreys Quotes (2026 Update)

Harold Jeffreys Quote: “Variation must be taken as random until there is positive evidence to the contrary.”

1. “Variation must be taken as random until there is positive evidence to the contrary.”

2. “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

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

— Harold Jeffreys

4. “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

5. “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

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

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