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Hans Christian von Baeyer Quotes: The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science.
         

The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science.


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Information gently but relentlessly drizzles down on us in an invisible, impalpable electric rain.

Information gently but relentlessly drizzles down on us in an invisible, impalpable electric rain.



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Underneath the shifting appearances of the world as perceived by our unreliable senses, is there, or is there not, a bedrock of objective reality?



The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information.

The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information.



Both induction and deduction, reasoning from the particular and the general, and back again from the universal to the specific, form the essence to scientific thinking.

Both induction and deduction, reasoning from the particular and the general, and back again from the universal to the specific, form the essence to scientific thinking.



As every bookie knows instinctively, a number such as reliability - a qualitative rather than a quantitative measure - is needed to make the valuation of information practically useful.

As every bookie knows instinctively, a number such as reliability - a qualitative rather than a quantitative measure - is needed to make the valuation of information practically useful.



Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information.

Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information.



The solution of the Monty Hall problem hinges on the concept of information, and more specifically, on the relationship between added information and probability.

The solution of the Monty Hall problem hinges on the concept of information, and more specifically, on the relationship between added information and probability.



If quantum communication and quantum computation are to flourish, a new information theory will have to be developed.

If quantum communication and quantum computation are to flourish, a new information theory will have to be developed.



An electron is real; a probability is not.

An electron is real; a probability is not.



In order to understand information, we must define it; bit in order to define it, we must first understand it. Where to start?

In order to understand information, we must define it; bit in order to define it, we must first understand it. Where to start?





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