“All that can be done pedagogically is to show the student how some phenomena have been modeled, let him model some phenomena under supervision, and then hope he will be successful on his own—or know enough to secure assistance.”
Source: A Mathematical Theory of Systems Engineering (1967), p. 68 About the teaching of modeling: As cited in: J.C. Heckman (1973, p. 5)".
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“Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.”
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"How Not To Better Social Conditions" in Review of Reviews (January 1897), p. 39
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