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The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.
You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right Please wait until I am wrong.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.
Johann von Neumann - on being phoned at 10:00 AM
US (Hungarian-born) computer scientist, mathematician
1903 - 1957

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