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

Harold Jeffreys

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

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About Harold Jeffreys

Sir Harold Jeffreys, FRS (22 April 1891 – 18 March 1989) was a British geophysicist who made significant contributions to mathematics and statistics. His book, Theory of Probability, which was first published in 1939, played an important role in the revival of the objective Bayesian view of probability.