It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention. — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain physical operations. The concept of length is therefore fixed when the operations… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
It seems to me that there is a good deal of ballyhoo about scientific method. I venture to think that the people who talk most about it are the people who do least about it. Scientific method is what working scientists do, not what other people or even they themselves may say about it. No working scientist, when he plans… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share
Coincidence is what you have left over when you apply a bad theory. — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
I can see no justification whatever for the attitude which refuses on purely a priori grounds to accept action at a distance ... Such… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the world adjust itself as… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
But ... the working scientist ... is not consciously following any prescribed course of action, but feels complete freedom to utilize any method or… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
The result is that a generation of physicists is growing up who have never exercised any particular degree of individual initiative, who have had… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
“The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts towards science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the scientist for… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea. — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
In general, we mean by any concept nothing more than a set of operations; the concept is synonymous with the corresponding set of operations. — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
