Science has taught us that what we see and touch is not what is really there. - Hans Christian von Baeyer

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.

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

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.