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

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

Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool.

In fact, an information theory that leaves out the issue of noise turns out to have no content.

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.

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

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.