Norbert Wiener on Information and the Scientific Approach

When we consider a problem of nature such as that of atomic reactions and atomic explosives, the largest single item of information which we can make public is that they exist. Once a scientist attacks a problem which he knows to have an answer, his entire attitude is changed. He is already some fifty percent of his way toward that answer.

Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society