Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson and Haldane, John B. S. (1940), Possible Worlds, Transaction Publishers, Retrieved on 2014-06-21
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    21 JUN 2014

     The Rate of Change of a Rate of Change

    In scientific thought we adopt the simplest theory which will explain all the facts under consideration and enable us to predict new facts of the same kind. The catch in this criterion lies in the word 'simplest'. It is really an aesthetic canon such as we find implicit in our criticisms of poetry or painting. The layman finds such a law as dx/dt = K(d^2x/dy^2) much less simple than 'it oozes', of which it is the mathematical statement. The physicist reverses this judgment, and his statement ...
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