Approximation Quote by George E. P. Box

All models are wrong; some models are useful.

— W. Edwards Deming

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

— George E. P. Box

Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.

— George E. P. Box

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

— Elliott Sober

A model is a good model if first it interprets a wide range of observations in terms of a simple and elegant model, and…

— Stephen Hawking

“Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.”

— Anonymous

“The various approximations that constitute our current physics theories are successful because simple mathematical structures can provide good approximations of how a self-aware substructure…

— Max Tegmark

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

— Bertrand Russell

All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them.

— Peter Norvig

Sometimes models are surprisingly smart.

— Lisa Randall

All models have faults - that doesnt mean you cant use them as tools for making decisions.

— Myron Scholes

Models are to be used, not believed.

— Henri Theil