[…] Did George Box say, "All models are wrong, but some are useful"?: This article summarizes my research into the famous quote by George Box, "All models are wrong, but some are useful." I was able to locate the quote on p. 424 of Box and Draper (1987). A reader pointed out that the quote also appears in a hard-to-find conference proceedings from 1978, which I was eventually able to obtain. …