Psychology Quote by Ed Catmull

“Our mental models aren’t reality. They are tools, like the models weather forecasters use to predict the weather. But, as we know all too…

— Ed Catmull

“Predictions often give us an illusion of control in situations that are inherently out of our control. Nothing exemplifies this better than our relationship…

— Heidi Cullen

“The Americans have perfected weather forecasts: a model presents a model of the Earth, a map, and jabs at it with her pointer –…

— Péter Zilahy

“mechanisms of weather predictions are very similar to those of climate predictions. So if we’re comfortable trusting local forecasters’ predictions about weather, we should…

— Heidi Cullen

Anyone who says there is not a change in weather patterns is denying reality.

— Andrew Cuomo

There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

We live in a description of reality.

— Jean Houston

“What’s the point of making predictions if they cannot change anything? Some complex systems, such as the weather, are oblivious to our predictions. The…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models, simulations, not the…

— Stephen LaBerge

Nobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we're being asked to believe a prediction that goes out 100 years into the future?…

— Michael Crichton

Any thinking person is qualified to be a forecaster, and in fact, everybody does it every day.

— Paul Saffo

One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.

— Erwin Chargaff