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