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If you don't understand something, break it apart; reduce it to its components. Since they are simpler than the whole, you have a much better chance of understanding them; and when you have succeeded in doing that, put the whole thing back together again.

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 start?

Hans Christian von Baeyer

The atom is not a static structure but a dynamic mechanism in constant interaction with its equally dynamic environment. It is not a grain of sand but a wave-tossed buoy blinking from afar. If we want to understand it, we must look beyond still pictures and record the action in a movie.

Hans Christian von Baeyer