"All models are wrong, but some are useful." George Box 1976. He was an applied statistician.
"The truth is too complicated to be represented by anything but approximations." John non Neumann 1947. He was a mathematician and physicist.
"A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness." Alfred Korzybski 1933. He was a philosopher of language and reality.
Seems like pretty close to the same idea from people at the top of different fields.
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