Quotes by Hans Christian von Baeyer

Hans Christian von Baeyer

An electron is real; a probability is not.

Electrons

Probability

Real

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.

Information

Numbers

Reliability

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.

Essence

Form

Thinking

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.

Information

Messages

Way

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

Information

Pressure

Way

For generations, field guides to plants and animals have sharpened the pleasure of seeing by opening our minds to understanding. Now John Adam has filled a gap in that venerable genre with his painstaking but simple mathematical descriptions of familiar, mundane physical phenomena. This is nothing less than a mathematical field guide to inanimate nature.

Animal

Simple

Understanding

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

Communication

Information

Quantum

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?

Axes

Curves

Two

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.

Chance

Together Again

Understanding

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

Information

Issues

Noise

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Animal

Axes

Book

Chance

Commodity

Common Sense

Communication

Curves

Defining

Definitions

Electrons

Energy

Engineering

Essence

Firsts

Form

Ideas

Information

Invisible

Issues

Land

Law

Long Ago

Lying

Messages

Mind

Noise

Numbers

Order

Physics

Play

Practice

Pressure

Probability

Problem

Quantum

Rain

Real

Reality

Reliability

Shifting

Simple

Smell

Taught

Taught Us

Thinking

Together Again

Transition

Two

Understanding

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Quotes by Hans Christian von Baeyer

Hans Christian von Baeyer

An electron is real; a probability is not.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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