Some Models Are Useful Quotes

#1. All models are wrong, but some models are useful.90 What he meant by that is that all models are simplifications of the universe, as they must necessarily be.

Nate Silver

#2. All models are wrong; some models are useful.

W. Edwards Deming

#3. Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.

George E.P. Box

#4. We learn as much by others' failings as by their teachings. Examples of imperfection is just as useful for achieving perfection as are models of competence and perfection.

Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

#5. 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

#6. The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

Edward De Bono

#7. Alternative models are neither right nor wrong, just more or less useful in allowing us to operate in the world and discover more and better options for solving problems.

Andrew Weil

#8. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.

George E.P. Box

#9. However useful computer models may be, the one thing they cannot be is evidence. Computer climate models are simply conjectures.

Nigel Lawson

#10. All models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in mind ...

George E.P. Box