What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.

There are no answers, only cross references.

Am I really a good mathematician?

In all important respects, the man who has nothing but his physical power to sell has nothing to sell which it is worth anyone's money to buy

Just as entropy is a measure of disorganization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure of organization. In fact, it is possible to interpret the information carried by a message as essentially the negative of its entropy, and the negative logarithm of its probability. That is, the more probable the message, the less information it gives. Cliches, for example, are less illuminating than great poems.

I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what'

Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.