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
Predicting ten years into the future is hard https://t.co/kh3mDAOIgd
Predicting world state 10 years out is difficult
To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.
(Chesterton, Orthodoxy)
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]
Beware when value modeling…
(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]
In a way, these things they’d gathered were an illusion. A way to reassure themselves that they were doing something to prepare.
Brandon Sanderson • Towers of Midnight (The Wheel of Time Book 13)
Chesterton, Orthodoxy
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.