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Writer and Professor Emeritus of Financial Engineering at Columbia University

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Emanuel Derman on X

Über allen Gipfeln
Ist Ruh,
In allen Wipfeln
Spürest du
Kaum einen Hauch;
Die Vögelein schweigen im Walde
Warte nur, balde
Ruhest du auch

I would like to argue that just as capitalism is a version of the protestant work ethic, making theories (in my sense) is a version of the jewish religious ethic. God says 'I am what I am', no comparisons A theory says this is how the world works, no analogies, just description

Volume 78 Issue 1 | Physics Today | AIP Publishing
This is a great edition on the history of quantum physics https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/issue/78/1

From a 1952 article by Dyson in Physics Today; it squares with my notion that a “theory” is something about which we feel there is no gap between it and the part of nature it describes.
A model in contrast to a theory, is merely an approximate metaphor

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