The problem of defining exactly what is meant by the signal velocity, which cropped up as long ago as 1907, has not been solved.

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

Science has taught us that what we see and touch is not what is really there.

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.

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

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