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.

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

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.

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.

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

An electron is real; a probability is not.

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