Quotes on Models and Their Uses
For thinking about and highlighting the more fundamental aspects and broader considerations of science/engineering models
Quotes on Models and Their Uses
For definitions are very dreadful things: they do the two things that most men, especially comfortable men, cannot endure. They fight; and they fight fair.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
he is a poet in this real sense, that he has realised the meaning of every function he has performed.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
It is a commonplace that men are all agreed in using symbols, and all differ about the meaning of the symbols.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • What I Saw in America
rationality is a method of dealing with uncertainty by devouring information and making simplifying assumptions about the outside world until you can convince yourself that you understand it
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Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Predicting world state 10 years out is difficult
To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.
(Chesterton, Orthodoxy)
Beware when value modeling…
(Chesterton, Orthodoxy)
It always takes a considerable time to see the simple and central fact about anything.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
In a way, these things they’d gathered were an illusion. A way to reassure themselves that they were doing something to prepare.