"All models are wrong; some models are useful."
— Science

January 1, 1970

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George E. P. Box, in George E. P. Box, William Hunter and Stuart Hunter, Statistics for Experimenters, 2nd ed. (2005), p. 440. Often paraphrased as "All models are wrong, but some are useful"