Quotes on Models and Their Uses
For thinking about and highlighting the more fundamental aspects and broader considerations of science/engineering models
by Michael Schaffner · updated 1mo ago
Quotes on Models and Their Uses
he is a poet in this real sense, that he has realised the meaning of every function he has performed.
from The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books] by G. K. Chesterton
Michael Schaffner added 1mo ago
It is a commonplace that men are all agreed in using symbols, and all differ about the meaning of the symbols.
from What I Saw in America by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Michael Schaffner added 1mo ago
- 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
from Tweet by hinterlander
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To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.
(Chesterton, Orthodoxy)
It always takes a considerable time to see the simple and central fact about anything.
from The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books] by G. K. Chesterton
Michael Schaffner added 3mo ago
In a way, these things they’d gathered were an illusion. A way to reassure themselves that they were doing something to prepare.
from Towers of Midnight (The Wheel of Time Book 13) by Brandon Sanderson
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