Surely where there's smoke there's fire? No, where there's so much smoke there's smoke.

One can only learn by teaching.

It from bit symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom...an immaterial source and explanation...that all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and that this is a participatory universe.

The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation.

The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe.

Every heat engineer knows he can design his heat engine reliably and accurately on the foundation of the second law [of thermodynamics]. Run alongside one of the molecules, however, and ask it what it thinks of the second law. It will laugh at us. It never heard of the second law. It does what it wants. All the same, a collection of billions upon billions of such molecules obeys the second law with all the accuracy one could want

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.