Hans Christian von Baeyer

Claude Shannon, the founder of information theory, invented a way to measure 'the amount of information' in a message without defining the…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

We don't know what energy is, any more than we know what information is, but as a now robust scientific concept we…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

An electron is real; a probability is not.

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

To put it one way, a collection of Shakespeare's plays is richer than a phone book that uses the same number of…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

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

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

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

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

In fact, an information theory that leaves out the issue of noise turns out to have no content.

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

If the intensity of the material world is plotted along the horizontal axis, and the response of the human mind is on…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

This is not what I thought physics was about when I started out: I learned that the idea is to explain nature…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

The problem of defining exactly what is meant by the signal velocity, which cropped up as long ago as 1907, has not…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

Both induction and deduction, reasoning from the particular and the general, and back again from the universal to the specific, form the…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

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

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

“Science has taught us that what we see and touch is not what is really there.”

— Hans Christian Von Baeyer

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

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

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

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

“The law of conservation of energy, reborn as the law of conservation of mass/energy, has established itself as one of the few…

— Hans Christian Von Baeyer

Time has been called God's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. In the same spirit, noise is Nature's…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

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

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

“If you don't understand something, break it apart; reduce it to its components. Since they are simpler than the whole, you have…

— Hans Christian Von Baeyer

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

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

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

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

For generations, field guides to plants and animals have sharpened the pleasure of seeing by opening our minds to understanding. Now John…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

As every bookie knows instinctively, a number such as reliability - a qualitative rather than a quantitative measure - is needed to…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer