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George Edward Pelham Box
(18 Oct 1919 - )
English-American engineer and statistician.
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Science Quotes by George Edward Pelham Box (3 quotes)
Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.
— George Edward Pelham Box
In George E.P. Box and Norman R. Draper, Empirical Model-Building and Response Surfaces (1987), 74.
To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it).
— George Edward Pelham Box
Use and Abuse of Regression (1966), 629.
…all models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in mind…
— George Edward Pelham Box
In George E. P. Box and Norman R. Draper, Empirical Model-Building and Response Surfaces (2007), 414.
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At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense. -- Carl Sagan
