Accurate Quote by Elliott Sober Download Open image “Scientists often seek predictively accurate models, rather than models that are true.” — Elliott Sober ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accurate Models Science Scientist
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 Copy Share Image
...all models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Scientists actively approach the door to knowledge—the boundary of the domain of what we know. We question and explore and we change our views… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Scientists can never be sure about the correctness of their theories. Every theory is just as good as the things it manages to predict… — Sabelo Lan Mashabela Copy Share Image
I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results. — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Abstracting human wisdom into models often works better than relying on human experts as models are often more consistent and less noisy. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
There is something about the mindset of a scientist that is different - an awareness of uncertainty, modeling, proof. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
We have this very clean picture of science, you know, these well-established rules with which we make predictions. But when you're really doing science,… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
In fact, scientific results are a careful attempt to objectively measure reality, and although they may be refined over time, they are always our… — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
From the fact that E is evidence for T and the fact that T entails M, it doesn't follow that E is evidence for… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Evolutionary game theory was originally developed as an alternative to the hypothesis of group selection; now it is clear that game theory models postulate… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Earlier attempts to show that simpler theories always have higher prior probabilities have failed, but there is a restricted circumstance in which the claim… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
"Methodological naturalism" and "metaphysical naturalism" are terms that often surface in the continuing battle between evolutionary biology and creationism/intelligent design. The methodological thesis says… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary biology as… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
This is not to deny that there are versions of theism that do conflict with evolutionary biology. Young Earth Creationism is an example; it… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Some philosophical arguments (e.g., in connection with the mind/body problem) look pretty good, while others (e.g., those that criticize moral realism) do not. — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
I have spent a lot of time arguing that the theory of group selection is not the stupid, pernicious doctrine that many biologists once… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Group selection and individual selection are just two of the selection processes that have played important roles in evolution. There also is selection within… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Instead of thinking of the question of race genealogically, and leaving it open whether vernacular races are genealogical units, the interest in biomedicine has… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate, nothing to… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
A film is a chain of very difficult decisions, and I think one of them is to choose an accurate cast. — Javier Camara Copy Share Image
“Madoc makes a snorting sound, then turns to me. 'I am sure that Wren here wouldn't mind taking Lady Nore's castle and lands for… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
He [Groucho's father] had absolutely no training, and if you had ever seen one of his suits, you'd realize what an accurate statement that… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
... the attempt to render visual intricacy makes words feel unwieldy, like sacks of meaning that must be lugged into place, dragged here and… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Not forgiving prolongs hurt and anger and leads to smoldering resentment, which will make us miserable until it kills us. Resentment destroys the perception… — Richard Walters Copy Share Image
Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations. — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
The western mantra is that Israel seeks negotiations without preconditions, while the Palestinians refuse. The opposite is more accurate. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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