Allowing Quote by Andrew Weil

All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them.

— Peter Norvig

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

All models are wrong; some models are useful.

— W. Edwards Deming

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

— George E. P. Box

All models have faults - that doesnt mean you cant use them as tools for making decisions.

— Myron Scholes

All models have faults - that doesn't mean you can't use them as tools for making decisions.

— Myron Scholes

Models are to be used, not believed.

— Henri Theil

A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.

— Manfred Eigen

Most of us function under the model we have to get something in order to do something, in order to be something. If this…

— Srikumar Rao

In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

— Aristotle

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.

— Vernor Vinge

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

— Eugene Delacroix