“A theory has only the alternative of being right or…

“A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.” ~ Manfred Eigen

Other Irrelevance Quotes

“Only once it’s irrelevant can your appreciation for it be pure.” ~ Proverb, author unknown - View Quote Details on “Only once it’s irrelevant can your appreciation for it be…
“What Americans don’t care much about is the piffle we put on TV these days, what they don’t care about is boring, irrelevant, badly told stories, and what they really hate is the presumption that they’re too stupid to know the difference.” ~ Christiane Amanpour - View Quote Details on “What Americans don’t care much about is the piffle we…
“May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.” ~ May Sarton - View Quote Details on “May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed,…
“A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.” ~ Charles Lamb - View Quote Details on “A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature,…
“I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question “Why did you start using narcotics in the first place?” should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.” ~ William S. Burroughs - View Quote Details on “I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is…
“Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.” ~ Janet Frame - View Quote Details on “Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to…
“It’s irrelevant who or what directed a movie, the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don’t.” ~ Kathryn Bigelow - View Quote Details on “It’s irrelevant who or what directed a movie, the important…
“A few pen-and-ink sketches of scenery and character may not be irrelevant; as serving to mark, palpable contrasts between the past and present, country and town, nature and art, illiterate and literary society - man almost in a state of semi-barbarism, and man enlightened by art, science, and refinement.” ~ John Britton - View Quote Details on “A few pen-and-ink sketches of scenery and character may not…
“The universe contains vastly more order than Earth-life could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally well ordered as our own.” ~ Paul Davies - View Quote Details on “The universe contains vastly more order than Earth-life could ever…
“Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.” ~ Michael Shermer - View Quote Details on “Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether…