Belief Quote by Henri Theil

Models are to be used, not believed.

— Henri Theil

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.

— Vernor Vinge

Young people need models, not critics.

— John Wooden

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.

— Mark Z. Danielewski

No one trusts a model except the man who wrote it; everyone trusts an observation, except the man who made it.

— Harlow Shapley

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

— Peter Norvig

I think most models, when they start out, are insecure. And you become the focus of a lot of people's attention, so outside validation…

— Maud Adams

I think there's inherently an issue that models will literally never be able to handle, which is that when somebody comes along with a…

— Cathy O'Neil

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

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

— Aristotle

Models work when they are appropriate for the particular circumstance, but some of the best investment judgments over time have come when people recognized…

— Abby Joseph Cohen

Children need models rather than critics.

— Joseph Joubert