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

— Hans Christian von Baeyer Information, The New Language of Science (2003)

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

Information, The New Language of Science (2003)

Underneath the shifting appearances of the world as perceived by our unreliable senses, is there, or is there not, a bedrock of objective reality?

Information, The New Language of Science (2003)

An electron is real; a probability is not.

Information, The New Language of Science (2003)

If quantum communication and quantum computation are to flourish, a new information theory will have to be developed.

Information, The New Language of Science (2003)

Nowhere is the difference between either/or and both/and more clearly apparent than in the context of information.

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