The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure…

The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that…

— Thomas Sowell

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

— Steven Pinker

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

— George E. P. Box

A theory is just a mathematical model to describe the observations.

— Karl Popper

“Throughout this Introduction we will see that confusing our mathematical models with the reality they aim to describe muddles the discussion of both.”

— Leonard A. Smith

Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

— Stephen Hawking

There is a history of mathematical models of oligopolistic competition dating from Cournot to the theory of games. There is also a literature generated…

— Martin Shubik

Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the economic realm. And there…

— Murray Rothbard

“What if one were to want to hunt for these hidden presences? You can’t just rummage around like you’re at a yard sale. You…

— Hari Kunzru

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical…

— John von Neumann

For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an…

— Thomas Piketty

What distinguishes a mathematical model from, say, a poem, a song, a portrait or any other kind of "model," is that the mathematical model…

— John L. Casti

The space that we're looking through is nine-dimensional. If you build a mathematical model, the amount of searching that we've done in 50 years…

— Jill Tarter

If the system exhibits a structure which can be represented by a mathematical equivalent, called a mathematical model, and if the objective can be…

— George Dantzig

The good news is that, at least in economics, I've seen movement away from its overemphasis on mathematical models of purely rational behavior to…

— Robert J. Shiller