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.
Hans Christian von BaeyerScience has taught us that what we see and touch is not what is really there.
Hans Christian von BaeyerIn order to understand information, we must define it; bit in order to define it, we must first understand it. Where to start?
Hans Christian von BaeyerEntropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information.
Hans Christian von Baeyer