Accounts Quote by Erwin Chargaff

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

“If you can choose any model of reality you want and accept it as true—why not choose a model that suggests that you can…

— Vishen Lakhiani

Reality is shaped by the forces that destroy it.

— Anonymous

“Theory in any branch of science entails a risk of detachment from reality”

— Quammen, David

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

— Elliott Sober

Climate ... models bear about as much relation to reality as astrology.

— Melanie Phillips

One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

— A. S. Byatt

Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable.

— Donella Meadows

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

— Vernor Vinge

“Our mental models aren’t reality. They are tools, like the models weather forecasters use to predict the weather.”

— Ed Catmull

Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible to scientific…

— Anonymous

The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained…

— Sam Harris