Quote of the day
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Harold Jeffreys

Born: April 22, 1891
Died: March 18, 1989 (aged 97)
Bio: Sir Harold Jeffreys was an English mathematician, statistician, geophysicist, and astronomer. His book Theory of Probability, which first appeared in 1939, played an important role in the revival of the Bayesian view of probability.
Known for:
- Scientific inference (1931)
- Methods of Mathematical Physics (1946)
- Theory of probability (1939)
- The earth (1929)
- Cartesian tensors (1931)