Accurate Quote by Elliott Sober

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

...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

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

Sometimes models are surprisingly smart.

— Lisa Randall

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

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

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

I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.

— Murray Gell-Mann

Abstracting human wisdom into models often works better than relying on human experts as models are often more consistent and less noisy.

— Dominic Cummings

There is something about the mindset of a scientist that is different - an awareness of uncertainty, modeling, proof.

— Joseph Stiglitz

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

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