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It is not possible to express the most precious insights, To see all that craves to be seen, To visit even the closest neighbors in the universe, To learn all that needs to be learned, To live without dying, And I am sad about it. But I lived And I am happy about that.

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George E. P. Box

Discovering the unexpected is more important than confirming the known.

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All models are wrong, but some are useful.

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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.

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Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

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Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.

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The only way to know how a complex system will behave-after you modify it-is to modify it and see how it behaves.

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