He man Quote by Harlow Shapley

“A model is a lie that helps you see the truth”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Models are to be used, not believed.

— Henri Theil

The only ones who can really benefit by consulting the model are those who can produce their effect without a model.

— Eugene Delacroix

“Remember, always, that everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model. Get your model out there where it can be viewed.…

— Donella H. Meadows

In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

— Aristotle

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

— Gavin Schmidt

It does require maturity to realize that models are to be used, but not to be believed.

— Henri Theil

It’s not good enough to imitate the models proposed for us that are answers to circumstances other than our own. It isn’t even enough…

— Rosario Castellanos

I've never been a model; that's a misconception about me, and I don't know where it came from.

— Julie Dreyfus

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A person who trusts no one can't be trusted

— Jerome Blattner

“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