Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of … - Hans Christian von Baeyer

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Hans Christian von Baeyer

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.

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

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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.

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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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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.

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