"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."

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Source : Harold Jeffreys (1998). “The Theory of Probability”, p.421, OUP Oxford

Harold Jeffreys

#Mind Quotes #Details Quotes #Helping Quotes

“Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.”
“Make your novel readable. Make it easy to read, pleasant to read. This doesn't mean flowery passages, ambitious flights of pyrotechnic verbiage; it means strong, simple, natural sentences.”
“We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.”
“I don't feel like my work is impersonal - it is, in many ways, a reflection upon me - but that's ultimately not the point. I'd rather each piece be seen as part of a larger experience, and that each installation be approached as a point of departure. As open as I am trying to keep things in my practice, I want the audience's experience to be as well. That's what keeps things existing.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.”
“Deceit is the mark of evil. Even if the evil messenger does not appear in person, the test is the same.”
“The mathematical expectation of the speculator is zero.”

Source : Louis Bachelier (2011). “Louis Bachelier's Theory of Speculation: The Origins of Modern Finance”, p.28, Princeton University Press
“A victory? What have we won? We've won a rock in the middle of a wasteland, on the shores of a poisoned sea.”

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