"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."

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Source : Harold Jeffreys (1998). “The Theory of Probability”, p.412, OUP Oxford

Harold Jeffreys

#Mean Quotes #Inference Quotes #Should Quotes

“I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue to play the best football I can.”
“[He was aware] of the value of the word of praise dropped at exactly the right moment; and he would have thought himself extremely stupid to withhold what cost him so little and was productive of such desirable results.”
“Whatever your Bible translation is, it stands on the shoulders of one man - William Tyndale.”
“Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off).”
“An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.”
“Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.”
“I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.”
“Iâ€™ve actually been in a lot of movies that involve sucking on fingers.”

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