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.

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.

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.

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

In order to understand information, we must define it; bit in order to define it, we must first understand it. Where to start?

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

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.