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May 1903
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1903natur..68...77h&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 68, Issue 1752, pp. 77 (1903).
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I MUST demur to the statement of my views which Sir O. Lodge has given in his letter printed in NATURE for May 14, ``that if dynamical laws are exact and irrefutable, the universe must be a completely determined mechanical system, with only one, and that a necessary, solution.'' In the first place, I made no statement as to the universe as a whole; as I do not know the physical universe to be finite in extent, I prefer to make statements only about finite portions of the universe, and the interactions of such finite portions. I certainly hold the view that the laws of dynamics, which are a self-consistent system of formal laws, are exact and irrefutable, but the question whether the motions of all parts of a living organism are in accordance with those laws is quite another matter, and one on which I have expressed no opinion. What I did in effect say, was that a material system upon which forces of psychical origin and of incalculable magnitude acted, traversed the laws of dynamics in the only sense in which such a system of laws can be traversed, viz. that the motions would not be in accordance with the laws, whether the supposititious forces do mechanical work or not.
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