Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Aepinus , and Home, R.W. (1979), Aepinus's Essay on the Theory of Electricity and Magnetism, Princeton 1979, Retrieved on 2011-08-30
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30 AUG 2011
Reduce Phenomena to the Proximate Causes and Primitive Fo...
I think that considerable progress can be made in the analysis of the operations of nature by the scholar who reduces rather complicated phenomena to their proximate causes and primitive forces, even though the causes of those causes have not yet been detected. Sounds a little like Occam's Razor, with an additional acceptance of some uncertainty.