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Not the scientist, but nature has the last word.

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Field guides are instruments of the pleasure of pure knowledge.

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

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

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

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As with all quantum devices, a qubit is a delicate flower. If you so much as look at it, you destroy it.

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Nowhere is the difference between either/or and both/and more clearly apparent than in the context of information.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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?

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

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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.

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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.

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