Arise Quote by Gavin Schmidt

In cases of major discrepancy its always reality thats got it wrong ... reality is frequently inaccurate.

— Douglas Adams

No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.

— James D. Watson

“People underestimate the power of models. Observational evidence is not very useful, adding,…our approach is not entirely empirical. —John Mitchell, principal research scientist at…

— Alan Carlin

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

— Elliott Sober

Difficulties arise when reported observations seem to conflict with 'facts' that the majority of scientists accept as established and immutable. Scientists tend to reject…

— Ian Stevenson

[It] may be laid down as a general rule that, if the result of a long series of precise observations approximates a simple relation…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

— Alexis Carrel

“One's instinct is at first to try and get rid of a discrepancy, but I believe that experience shows such an endeavour to be…

— John William Strutt

In physics we have developed models that are extremely accurate across vastly different scales from the sub-atomic to the visible universe. In politics we…

— Dominic Cummings

Thus even supposedly unadulterated facts of observation already are interfused with all sorts of conceptual pictures, model concepts, theories or whatever expression you choose.…

— Ludwig von Bertalanffy

...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