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
For thinking about and highlighting the more fundamental aspects and broader considerations of science/engineering models
by Michael Schaffner · updated 1mo ago
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Linearity is an artificial way of viewing the world. Real life isn’t a series of interconnected events occurring one after another like beads strung on a necklace.
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Yet, despite a tremendous increase in available facts, there were remarkably few insights.
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he is a poet in this real sense, that he has realised the meaning of every function he has performed.
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It always takes a considerable time to see the simple and central fact about anything.
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It is a commonplace that men are all agreed in using symbols, and all differ about the meaning of the symbols.
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In a way, these things they’d gathered were an illusion. A way to reassure themselves that they were doing something to prepare.
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