Errors Quote by George E. P. Box

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

— George E. P. Box

All models are wrong; some models are useful.

— W. Edwards Deming

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

— Peter Norvig

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

All models have faults - that doesn't mean you can't use them as tools for making decisions.

— Myron Scholes

If the models are as flawed as critics say you have to ask yourself, 'How come they work?'

— Gavin Schmidt

Alternative models are neither right nor wrong, just more or less useful in allowing us to operate in the world and discover more and…

— Andrew Weil

...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

Sometimes models are surprisingly smart.

— Lisa Randall

If you just rely on one model, you tend to amputate reality to make it fit your model.

— David Brooks

The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the question.

— Samuel Karlin