"I'm somebody who happens to think that's a very elegant model."
A bike, a slick and elegant model, whirring powerfully.
The reference to religion and church was in the elegant models whose heads were draped with scarfs like mantillas.
It featured a human skeleton carrying on with elegant models.
The theory always came first, put forward from the desire to have an elegant and consistent mathematical model.
And he tossed me, with visible irreverence, a drawing in which I happened to have depicted both my elegant models.
All too soon, however, the boy perceives that the inventor's fragile, elegant model represents a hopeless pipe dream.
Social scientists produce elegant models but, he insists, models that are unconnected to the real world.
The history of physics is replete with cases where an elegant model came up against some recalcitrant data, and the model eventually won.