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
Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day
“But there is only one history…all other beginnings and endings are arbitrary conventions, diffusing petty comfort or petty despair.”
“It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.”
Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day
“There was always hope that in talk, talk, talk he could alter the past, conjure the future, and impose an estimable image of himself upon the present.”
Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day
“Explanations are for people who carry dull minds through dull lives”
“Why are idealists such ninnies?
Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day
“highest happiness and deepest misery” — having children?
“There is no happiness save in understanding the whole”
Things that happen very seldom we all leave out of our calculations, whether they are miraculous or not.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
If you read the book "Noise" from Kahneman et al. you will see that noise of decision (e.g. over different persons) can be reduced by skipping the weights and just adding up the scores -- Equal Weighting Model
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.