We don't know what energy is, any more than we know what information is, but as a now robust scientific concept we can describe it in precise mathematical terms, and as a commodity we can measure, market, regulate and tax it.


Chapter 2, The Spell of Democritus, Why information will transform physics, p. 11 - Information, The New Language of Science (2003)

Hans Christian von Baeyer Quotes

We don't know what energy is, any more than we know what information is, but as a now robust scientific concept we can describe it in precise...

We don't know what energy is, any more than we know what information is, but as a now robust scientific concept we can describe it in precise...

We don't know what energy is, any more than we know what information is, but as a now robust scientific concept we can describe it in precise...

We don't know what energy is, any more than we know what information is, but as a now robust scientific concept we can describe it in precise...