Favorite E T Jaynes quote

E T Jaynes ‘The Gibbs Paradox’…

“If one is to condemn things that depend on human information, on the grounds that they are “subjective”, it seems to us that one must condemn all science and all education; for in those fields, human information is all we have. We should rather condemn this misuse of the terms “subjective” and “objective”, which are descriptive adjectives, not epithets. Science does indeed seek to describe what is “objectively real”; but our hypotheses about that will have no testable consequences unless it can also describe what human observers can see and know.”

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