A scale model of a house is not a house; but to someone who wants to learn about houses, analogous to a scientist who wants to understand reality, a sufficiently detailed scale model may suffice.
房屋的比例模型并不是一所房屋；但对于那些想“了解”房屋的人来说，就象想要理解现实的科学家一样，有一个足够详细的比例模型可能就够了。