[TowerTalk] Modeling vs Experimenting Crowds

[Don]

Well put by Mr Fox, Shawn. Reminds me of a little picture frame with the 
following which hung on the wall of one of our top engineers in the test 
and instruments company I worked for. Smart, learned, well educated and 
a dedicated experimenter, determined to defy the 'it has to be so' 
crowd. Quite successful.

"No one believes the results of the computational modeler except the 
modeler, for only he understands the premises. No one doubts the 
experimenter's results except the experimenter, for only he knows his 
mistakes'. Beneath was two handwrittenlines on a strip of paper. 
"Modeling is not as exciting as experimenting where the outcome can be 
an Eureka moment".

I had copied that and tucked it away in my old company history files I 
left with.

Don T W7WLL

On 9/11/2019 2:08 PM, Shawn Donley wrote:
> I occasionally teach a class on modeling certain mechanical systems using Simulink.  The second slide is a quote from the British mathematician George E.P Box.  I think it may apply to this discussion as well.
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> "All models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful."
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