Science Quote by William R. Miller

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical…

— John von Neumann

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical…

— John Von Neumann

The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained…

— Sam Harris

As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers?

— Gil Kalai

By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

“Science requires both observation and comprehension. Without observation there are no facts to be comprehended; without comprehension science is mere documentation. The basis for…

— Occam s razor

“Throughout this Introduction we will see that confusing our mathematical models with the reality they aim to describe muddles the discussion of both.”

— Leonard A. Smith

The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable, even if…

— Karl Popper

“Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable…

— Melvin Schwartz

“The textbook version is simple: experimenters find out things in the world, either by seeing them or by making them happen. Theorists try to…

— Konstantin Kakaes

In order to displace a prevailing theory or paradigm in science, it is not enough to merely point out what it cannot explain; you…

— Michael Shermer

This is not what I thought physics was about when I started out: I learned that the idea is to explain nature in terms…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer