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
To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.
(Chesterton, Orthodoxy)
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.
Michael Crichton • Jurassic Park: A Novel
models, despite their reputation for impartiality, reflect goals and ideology
Weapons of Math Destruction Quotes by Cathy O'Neil
Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day
“Explanations are for people who carry dull minds through dull lives”
“Why are idealists such ninnies?
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
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
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]
Yet, despite a tremendous increase in available facts, there were remarkably few insights.