Quote by Alan Carlin

“The lack of plausible alternatives to an explanatory model significantly increases the chances of its adoption.”

— Daniel Waterman

The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are…

— Freeman Dyson

It is expected that there will be discrepancies between models and observations. However, why these arise and what one should conclude from them are…

— Gavin Schmidt

It is an interesting fact about model selection that the evidence at hand can indicate that a model known to be false will be…

— Elliott Sober

Simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data.

— Peter Norvig

Scientists often seek predictively accurate models, rather than models that are true.

— Elliott Sober

Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models…

— Joseph Stiglitz

It does require maturity to realize that models are to be used, but not to be believed.

— Henri Theil

No one trusts a model except the man who wrote it; everyone trusts an observation, except the man who made it.

— Harlow Shapley

Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The only ones who can really benefit by consulting the model are those who can produce their effect without a model.

— Eugene Delacroix