Edwin Thompson Jaynes Inspirational Quotes (2)

In any field, the Establishment is seldom in pursuit of the truth, because it is composed of those who sincerely believe that they are already in possession of it.

It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those who thought of probability as a physical phenomenon associated with randomness. Quite the opposite we have thought of probability distributions as carriers of information.