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"'was a ‘second derivative’ realization as that phenomenon occurs in the calculus. This was a second derivative because it was a pattern realization that could not be apprehended until the first order of differentiation had been accomplished. The second derivatives are the mountain ranges which lie, unbeknownst to us, beyond the mountains that we first ascend.
"As a consequence of discovering that the environment could be effectively analyzed by quantum mechanics, it then became clear that what men had been designating as ‘typhoons’ or ‘dew’ fell into a table of abstract numbers elegantly arrangeable in an order of energy magnitudes.
"This experience told me how brilliant was Eddinton’s definition of science: ‘The earnest attempt to set in order’ the facts of experience. Only through such a second derivative experience regarding the science of treatment of experiences do we gain new insights. That is all that the calculus does-- gets things in order. That is science.
“Ernest Mach, the great Viennese physicist whose name is used to designate ascending increments of supersonic speed, known as”
