Hans Christian von Baeyer Quotes

• To put it one way, a collection of Shakespeare's plays is richer than a phone book that uses the same number of letters; to put it another, the essence of information lies in the relationships among bits, not their sheer number.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Lying, Book, Play

  "Information: The New Language of Science". Book by Hans Christian von Baeyer, 2004.

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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.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Numbers, Reliability, Information

  "Information, The New Language of Science". Book by Hans Christian von Baeyer, 2003.

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

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  Rain, Information, Invisible

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.3, Harvard University Press

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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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  Information, Way, Pressure

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.98, Harvard University Press

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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.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Thinking, Essence, Form

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.138, Harvard University Press

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• 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 way of making sure that we don't find out everything that happens. Noise, in short, is the protector of information.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Noise, Information, Way

  "Information: The New Language of Science". Book by Hans Christian von Baeyer, 2004.

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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.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Smell, Definitions, Information

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.104, Harvard University Press

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• Durante generaciones, las guías de campo de plantas y animales han agudizado el placer de ver abriendo nuestras mentes a la comprensión. Ahora, John Adam ha llenado un vacío en ese venerable género con sus minuciosas pero sencillas descripciones matemáticas de fenómenos físicos familiares y mundanos. Se trata nada menos que de una guía matemática de la naturaleza inanimada.

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  Animal, Simple, Understanding

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• If the intensity of the material world is plotted along the horizontal axis, and the response of the human mind is on the vertical, the relation between the two is represented by the logarithmic curve. Could this rule provide a clue to the relationship between the objective measure of information, and our subjective perception of it?

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  Curves, Axes, Two

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.85, Harvard University Press

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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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  Order, Information, Firsts

  "Information, The New Language of Science". Book by Hans Christian von Baeyer, 2003.

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• Si no entiendes algo, sepáralo, redúcelo a sus componentes. Como son más simples que el todo, tienes muchas más posibilidades de entenderlo; y cuando lo hayas conseguido, vuelve a unirlo todo.

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  Together Again, Understanding, Chance

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.54, Harvard University Press

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• 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.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Energy, Information, Commodity

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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• Claude Shannon, the founder of information theory, invented a way to measure 'the amount of information' in a message without defining the word 'information' itself, nor even addressing the question of the meaning of the message.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Information, Way, Messages

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.28, Harvard University Press

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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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  Communication, Information, Quantum

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.231, Harvard University Press

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• Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two competing theories against each other, or theory against observation, or a compelling mathematical deduction against ordinary common sense.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Two, Common Sense, Mind

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.204, Harvard University Press

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• This is not what I thought physics was about when I started out: I learned that the idea is to explain nature in terms of clearly understood mathematical laws; but perhaps comparisons are the best we can hope for.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Ideas, Law, Physics

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.203, Harvard University Press

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• An electron is real; a probability is not.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Real, Probability, Electrons

  "Information, The New Language of Science". Book by Hans Christian von Baeyer, 2003.

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

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Engineering, Practice, Transition

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.154, Harvard University Press

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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.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Information, Problem, Probability

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.70, Harvard University Press

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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.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Long Ago, Velocity, Defining

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.135, Harvard University Press

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

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Taught Us, Taught

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.37, Harvard University Press

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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.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Lying, Land, Numbers

  "Information: The New Language of Science". Book by Hans Christian von Baeyer, 2004.

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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?

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Reality, World, Shifting

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.64, Harvard University Press

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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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  Issues, Noise, Information

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.121, Harvard University Press

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