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

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

Underneath the shifting appearances of the world as perceived by our unreliable senses, is there, or is there not, a bedrock of objective reality?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

An electron is real; a probability is not.

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

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.

Do what you like and like what you doIt will bring success, joy and happiness to you.

I knew what was like to finally be seduced by the thing you hunted. Mine just happened to be a more traditional seduction. Okay, at least I was still among the living.

I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

Rand rubbed his hands over his face. His anger had dissipated. “I’m sorry, Yelena. I was backed into a corner and I couldn’t get out without hurting someone.

For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason.

Really dig into projects people have worked on and call references; that is another thing that first time founders like to skip.