Quote by George Box
The only way to find out what will happen when a complex system is disturbed is to disturb the system, not merely to observe it passively.
Comment
Paraphrasing Box (from 1966 paper, Use and Abuse of Regression) in 1977 book by Mosteller and Tukey (Data Analysis and Regression).
Source
Book: Data Analysis and Regression: A Second Course in Statistics
Categories:
data, experiment, interactions, statistics, systems thinking
