Quotes About Mathematical Models

#1. As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal.

Steven Pinker

#2. For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an immoderate use of mathematical models, which are frequently no more than an excuse for occupying the terrain and masking the vacuity of the content.

Thomas Piketty

#3. The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure saying exactly where that nerve cell should go - the complexity of these mathematical models is beyond human comprehension.

Alexander Tsiaras

#4. The credit crunch was based on a climate (the post-Cold War victory party of free-market capitalism), a problem (the sub-prime mortgages), a mistake (the mathematical models of risk) and a failure, that of the regulators.

John Lanchester

#5. Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the economic realm. And there is no way that uncertainty can be compressed into determinate mathematical models.

Murray Rothbard

#6. if you take a positivist position, as I do, questions about reality don't have any meaning. All one can ask is whether imaginary time is useful in formulating mathematical models that describe what we observe.

Stephen Hawking

#7. I don't think it ever works to tell people what they can't eat. They can do it for so long, and then they fall off. You have to bring them into a new relationship with food.

Alice Waters

#8. Through a narrow window we can see only part of the sky, and not the whole vastness, the magnificence of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#9. The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.

Dylan McDermott

#10. Enslavement was not destined to end, and it is wrong to claim our present circumstance - no matter how improved - as the redemption for the lives of people who never asked for the posthumous, untouchable glory of dying for their children.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#11. Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended.

Chaim Weizmann

#12. I think the obligation of an artist is to make a difference in the world. That is what matters most to me. I think that artists are the leaders of the world because they do not have a connection to the industrial complex, the day-to-day short-term survival that most people are involved with.

James Cromwell

#13. Nothing has done more to render modern economic theory a sterile and irrelevant exercise in autoeroticism than its practitioners' obsession with mathematical, general-equilibrium models.

Robert Higgs

#14. Makin' mistakes ain't a crime, you know. What's the use of having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and then?

Simone Elkeles

#15. The white establishment is now the minority,

Bill O'Reilly

#16. Sometimes you think in order to act, sometimes you act in order to think.

Lee S Shulman

#17. Never discount good intentions, for good intentions may be all one has to offer. - Eilish in "No-Till" by Basil Pearl.

Basil Pearl

#18. The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke.

John Allen Paulos

#19. Is it possible that a tragedy can look so beautiful? The death of the leaves is the answer for this question!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. Only her death could prove her innocence; a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.

Alice Hoffman

#21. That girl who doesn't even understand my language properly, understands my heart, but the one who should, doesn't even try

Sapan Saxena

#22. You're a miracle, Walker. Your fingers are. Your toes are. Your crushing sadness and guilt are.

Ron Koertge

#23. Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

G.K. Chesterton