Quotes About Scientific Models

#1. One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.

Erwin Chargaff

#2. All science is based on models, and every scientific model comprises three distinct stages: statement of well-defined hypotheses; deduction of all the consequences of these hypotheses, and nothing but these consequences; confrontation of these consequences with observed data.

Maurice Allais

#3. I thought poems were songs for people with bad voices.

Lorna Dee Cervantes

#4. 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

#5. It is true that no member state can be required to make payments to others. But if countries want to offer voluntary assistance, as in the Greek case, this isn't only allowed, but it's also in Germany's interest. We all benefit by ensuring the stability of the euro zone.

Wolfgang Schauble

#6. Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest for truth and conscience finds its quietus either in universal defeat or in triumphant success, will organized religion cease to be.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#7. I have some that I have become a well-known-even infamous-client of, mostly in Memphis. But a great deal of that is legend and doesn't have anything to do with truth.

William Eggleston

#8. Fear is the most insidious of weaknesses. You must learn to raze it from your soul, or risk defeat in all you do.

Courtney Schafer

#9. Scientific knowledge is as much an understanding of the diversity of situations for which a theory or its models are relevant as an understanding of its limits.

Elinor Ostrom

#10. Perhaps the greatest scientific deception of the IPCC is the abuse and misuse of computer climate models. They allow them to make their reports and deliberations appear credible. They allow them to bamboozle the public because computer models are a complete mystery to most people.

Timothy Ball

#11. Tacky T-shirts that said things like "My crazy Grandma traveled to India and all I got was this lousy T-shirt." They

Chris Colfer

#12. God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it.

Melina Marchetta

#13. All magic is about transformation ... the performance magician is telling you that you are the magician in your own life. You are the agent of transformation, your own transformation.

Eugene Burger