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
Linearity is an artificial way of viewing the world. Real life isn’t a series of interconnected events occurring one after another like beads strung on a necklace.
Michael Crichton • Jurassic Park: A Novel
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]
Predicting world state 10 years out is difficult
Yet, despite a tremendous increase in available facts, there were remarkably few insights.
Stephen King • The Dark Tower I
Chesterton, Orthodoxy
he is a poet in this real sense, that he has realised the meaning of every function he has performed.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
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
models, despite their reputation for impartiality, reflect goals and ideology