da Informazione. Il nuovo linguaggio della scienza, traduzione di Stefano Bianchi, edizioni Dedalo, 2005
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“Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science.”
Origine: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 23, Black Holes, Where information goes to hide, p. 204
Contesto: 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.
Origine: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 15, Ultimate Speed, The information speed limit, p. 135
Origine: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 7, A Battle Among Giants, Reductionism and emergence, p. 54
von Baeyer did not originate the quip about time, which dates back at least as far as the 1929 book "The Man Who Mastered Time" by Ray Cummings, where it appears on p. 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=YdZEAAAAYAAJ&q=%22everything+from+happening+at+once%22#search_anchor.
Origine: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 14, Noise, Nuisance and necessity, p. 127-128
Origine: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 24, Bits, Bucks, Hits and Nuts, Information theory beyond Shannon, p. 221
Origine: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 9, Figuring the Odds, How probability measures information, p. 70
“An electron is real; a probability is not.”
Origine: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 19, The Quantum Gadget, Quantum weirdness brought to light, p. 172
Origine: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 25, Zeilingers Principle, Information at the root of reality, p. 231
Origine: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 12, Randomness, The flip side of information, p. 104
Origine: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 10, Counting Digits, The ubiquitous logarithm, p. 85
Origine: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 22, Quantum Computing, Putting qubits to work, p. 203
Origine: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 3, In-Formation, The roots of the concept, p. 18
“Science has taught us that what we see and touch is not what is really there.”
Origine: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 5, Abstraction, Beyond concrete reality, p. 35
“Information gently but relentlessly drizzles down on us in an invisible, impalpable electric rain.”
Origine: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 1, Electric Rain, Information in our lives, p. 3
Origine: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 2, The Spell of Democritus, Why information will transform physics, p. 11
Origine: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 8, The Oracle of Copenhagen, Science is about information, p. 64
Origine: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 4, Counting Bits, The scientific measure of information, p. 28
Origine: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 20, A Game of Beads, The wonder of quantum superposition, p. 182
Origine: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 11, The Message on the Tombstone, The meaning of entropy, p. 97-98
Origine: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 16, Unpacking Information, The computer in the service of physics, p. 138
Origine: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 17, Bioinformatics, Biology meets information technology, p. 145
Origine: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 21, The Qubit, Information in the quantum age, p. 187
“In fact, an information theory that leaves out the issue of noise turns out to have no content.”
Origine: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 13, Electric Information, From Morse to Shannon, p. 121
Origine: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 18, Information is Physical, The cost of forgetting, p. 154
Origine: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 6, The Book of Life, Genetic information, p. 48