Top 36 Baeyer Quotes

#1. Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information.

Hans Christian Von Baeyer

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#2. Most people who have survived abuse have great strength.

John Bradshaw

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#3. An electron is real; a probability is not.

Hans Christian Von Baeyer

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#4. We don't know what energy is, any more than we know what information is, but as a now robust scientific concept we can describe it in precise mathematical terms, and as a commodity we can measure, market, regulate and tax it.

Hans Christian Von Baeyer

Baeyer Quotes #105274
#5. He leaned in then and kissed me again, sweet and soft and tender, silencing my arguments and stealing my breath, making me wonder how one simple gesture could be so tragically lovely.

Kimberly Derting

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#6. Science has taught us that what we see and touch is not what is really there.

Hans Christian Von Baeyer

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#7. The problem of defining exactly what is meant by the signal velocity, which cropped up as long ago as 1907, has not been solved.

Hans Christian Von Baeyer

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#8. Your life really begins when you learn to realize that no one else but you is responsible for your amazing life.

Debasish Mridha

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#9. Claude Shannon, the founder of information theory, invented a way to measure 'the amount of information' in a message without defining the word 'information' itself, nor even addressing the question of the meaning of the message.

Hans Christian Von Baeyer

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

Hans Christian Von Baeyer

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#11. Sisters, when about their work, should not put on clothing which would make them look like images to frighten the crows from the corn. It is more gratifying to their husbands and children to see them in a becoming, well-fitting, attire, than it can be to merely visitors or strangers.

Ellen G. White

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#12. Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool.

Hans Christian Von Baeyer

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#13. I watched Baeyer activating magnesium with iodine for a difficult Grignard reaction; it was done in a test tube, which he watched carefully as he moved it gently by hand over a flame for three quarters of an hour. The test tube was the apparatus to Baeyer.

Richard Willstatter

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

Hans Christian Von Baeyer

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

Hans Christian Von Baeyer

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#16. The solution of the Monty Hall problem hinges on the concept of information, and more specifically, on the relationship between added information and probability.

Hans Christian Von Baeyer

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

Hans Christian Von Baeyer

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#18. We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.

Gregory David Roberts

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#19. As to your being worthy, I don't think falling in love has much to do with the worth of the object of love. But I'd dispute your assessment. I think you're a fine woman, and I think you always try to be the best person you can be.

Charlaine Harris

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#20. As every bookie knows instinctively, a number such as reliability - a qualitative rather than a quantitative measure - is needed to make the valuation of information practically useful.

Hans Christian Von Baeyer

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#21. If you don't understand something, break it apart; reduce it to its components. Since they are simpler than the whole,you have a much better chance of understanding them; and when you have succeeded in doing that, put the whole thing back together again.

Hans Christian Von Baeyer

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#22. Baeyer-a chemist who was more of an encyclopedist than a researcher.

Richard Willstatter

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#23. Information gently but relentlessly drizzles down on us in an invisible, impalpable electric rain.

Hans Christian Von Baeyer

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#24. 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

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#25. This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.

{Comment on German scientist Eduard Buchner who later ironically won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery}

Adolf Von Baeyer

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#26. I don't have a life-style, I have a life.

Nikki Giovanni

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#27. 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.

Hans Christian Von Baeyer

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#28. I'm committed to try to make the product the best I possibly can.

Tiger Woods

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#29. I am openly prideful, secretly judgemental, and cowardly in conflict.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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#30. I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.

John Grisham

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#31. Both induction and deduction, reasoning from the particular and the general, and back again from the universal to the specific, form the essence to scientific thinking.

Hans Christian Von Baeyer

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#32. 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

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#33. 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 we don't find out everything that happens. Noise, in short, is the protector of information.

Hans Christian Von Baeyer

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#34. When interviewing for any job, you of course want to dress appropriately for the position, but you also want to stay true to who you are.

Nina Garcia

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#35. This is not what I thought physics was about when I started out: I learned that the idea is to explain nature in terms of clearly understood mathematical laws; but perhaps comparisons are the best we can hope for.

Hans Christian Von Baeyer

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#36. 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 essence of information lies in the relationships among bits, not their sheer number.

Hans Christian Von Baeyer

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