Science

Models of Reality

"Now, because we have communicated for so long, it is easy for us to forget that we are using models, and, when modeling the world we share, it is easy to forget that the cosmos is there and we are in it; changing our model can change our perception of the universe, but will not change the universe itself. We can argue about how to model the universe, but cannot argue the universe into being something that it is not. We own the models, but not the universe." -- Fr. Paul A. Koroluk, "As If" or "I Believe": Models for the Seen, and for the Unseeable, [1]