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 scientific thinking.

An electron is real; a probability is not.

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.