Climate change Quote by Freeman Dyson

It's also a reasonable scientific program to look at the dynamics of the standard model and to try to prove from that dynamics that…

— Seth Lloyd

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

Computer models of the climate…[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.

— 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

“idea models—models that are simple enough to study via mathematics or computers but that nonetheless capture fundamental properties of natural complex systems.”

— Melanie Mitchell

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

— Donella Meadows

A lot of things can't be modeled very well.

— Nate Silver

This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.

— Michael Crichton

We have the ability, at such high fidelity, to simulate the physical world through computers. But when the spiritual world or human behavior comes…

— Buzz Aldrin

Conventional wisdom, fooled by our misleading "physical intuition", is that the real world is "continuous", and that discrete models are necessary evils for approximating…

— Doron Zeilberger

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

— Erwin Chargaff

The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the orchestra -…

— Gerald Edelman