A good example of this is furnished by Huygens' principle, which in its original form discusses the propagation of light by asserting that the wave front is the envelope of secondary waves whose ...

The Principle of Independent Assortment describes how different genes independently separate from one another when reproductive cells develop. Independent assortment of genes and their ...

Occam’s razor is a principle often attributed to 14th–century friar William of Ockham that says that if you have two competing ideas to explain the same phenomenon, you should prefer the ...