Quotes About Model

If we try to make general inferences about the theoretical possibility of a reliable computational model of the brain, we ought indeed to come to terms with the mysteries of quantum theory.

El filósofo transforma los planteamientos iniciales relativos al concepto, y afirma la existencia de un «mundo de las ideas», que es modelo del mundo real. Este mundo es para Platón mucho más real que el que habitualmente llamamos «realidad». El mundo de las ideas es incluso, por así decir, el único mundo real.

The second assertion was that the pre-colonial political economy conformed to the model of what was called Oriental Despotism.

Evangelical Christians need another model for cultural and political engagement, and one of the best I am aware of has been articulated by the artist Makoto Fujimura, who speaks about "culture care" instead of "culture war.

It was the extension of the model of male power into more nebulous aspects of behaviour which eventually lost feminism much of its wider support.

An organization can only grow and set an exemplary model for development with the help of right talent pool.

The reasons for the failure of the Leninist economic model have been studied thoroughly and in the case of North Korea they were essentially the same as elsewhere: distorted price information, lack of incentives for innovation and quality improvement, and an ingrained inability to handle data efficiently.

Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.

Disability scholars Andrienne Asch and Erik Parens, in their seminal discussion of the problem, wrote,'Pre-natal diagnosis reinforces the medical model that disability itself, not societal discrimination against people with disabilities, is the problem to be solved.

I believe that network marketing is one of the smartest business models on the planet!

His early book, not much noticed when it was published, was now on many reading lists, and the younger generation of historians accepted it as a model of the new sort of history, "history that interests us"—personal, engagée—and looks at the past with an intense need for contemporary relevance.

From the moment technology allowed us to know which kinds of content influenced viewership the most, the old business model of the news industry was dead media walking.

The business model of the press manipulated our brains until our emotions overwhelmed whatever traces of rationality we started with.

From the moment technology allowed us to know which kinds of content influenced viewership the most, the old business model of the news industry was dead media walking. From that point through today, the business model of the press changed from presenting information to manipulating brains.

The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.

A model of the psychical apparatus that pictures behaviour as a resultant of a hypothetical psychical energy that is seeking discharge was adopted by Freud almost at the beginning of his psychoanalytical work.

Although from time to time details of the psychical energy model underwent change, Freud never considered abandoning it for any other kind of model. Nor have more than a handful of other analysts. What, then, are the reasons that have led me to do so?

Now there is nothing unscientific in utilising, for the interpretation of data, any model that seems promising; and there is therefore nothing unscientific either in Freud's introduction of his model or in his own or others' employment of it. Nevertheless, the question arises whether there may by now be an alternative better suited for the purpose in hand.

The psychical energy model is, therefore, a theoretical model brought by Freud to psychoanalysis: it is in no way a model derived by him from the practice of psychoanalysis. Secondly...

The Institutes is not only the classic of Christian theology; it is also a model of Christian devotion.

In this life of ours we remain directed toward the relative utopia of a better world, and sensibly this can be the only model for our action.

I really became convinced I wanted to tell the story of the real-life model for the Degas sculpture 'Little Dancer Aged 14,' which was unveiled in 1881, the Belle Epoque.

How dare you, unless you can hold up your own life as a model of rectitude, achievement, and halcyon happiness, open your mouth about the stubborn secrets of living?

One becomes affectionate toward men slowly, whether they coincide or not with whomever in the various phases of life we have taken as the model of a man.