Time has been called God's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. In the same spirit, noise is Nature's way of making sure that w…

- Hans Christian Von Baeyer

To put it one way, a collection of Shakespeare's plays is richer than a phone book that uses the same number of letters; to put it another, the essen…

- Hans Christian Von Baeyer

If the intensity of the material world is plotted along the horizontal axis, and the response of the human mind is on the vertical, the relation betw…

- Hans Christian Von Baeyer

As every bookie knows instinctively, a number such as reliability - a qualitative rather than a quantitative measure - is needed to make the valuatio…

- Hans Christian Von Baeyer

Both induction and deduction, reasoning from the particular and the general, and back again from the universal to the specific, form the essence to s…

- Hans Christian Von Baeyer

The solution of the Monty Hall problem hinges on the concept of information, and more specifically, on the relationship between added information and…

- Hans Christian Von Baeyer

The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information.

- Hans Christian Von Baeyer

In order to understand information, we must define it; bit in order to define it, we must first understand it. Where to start?

- Hans Christian Von Baeyer

For generations, field guides to plants and animals have sharpened the pleasure of seeing by opening our minds to understanding. Now John Adam has fi…

- Hans Christian Von Baeyer