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
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]
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]
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]
Chesterton, Orthodoxy
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
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.”
Yet, despite a tremendous increase in available facts, there were remarkably few insights.
Stephen King • The Dark Tower I
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.”