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> [Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-williams-bridgman/science-is-what-scientists-do-and-there-are-as-many-scientific/)

[Percy Williams Bridgman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/percy-williams-bridgman/)

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## More by Percy Williams Bridgman

> [To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain physical operations. The concept of length is therefore fixed when the operations…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-williams-bridgman/to-find-the-length-of-an-object-we-have-to-perform-certain-physical/)

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> [The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-williams-bridgman/the-true-meaning-of-a-term-is-to-be-found-by-observing-what-a-man/)

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> [It seems to me that there is a good deal of ballyhoo about scientific method. I venture to think that the people who talk…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-williams-bridgman/it-seems-to-me-that-there-is-a-good-deal-of-ballyhoo-about-scientific/)

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> [Coincidence is what you have left over when you apply a bad theory.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-williams-bridgman/coincidence-is-what-you-have-left-over-when-you-apply-a-bad-theory/)

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> [I can see no justification whatever for the attitude which refuses on purely a priori grounds to accept action at a distance ... Such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-williams-bridgman/i-can-see-no-justification-whatever-for-the-attitude-which-refuses-on/)

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> [My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-williams-bridgman/my-point-of-view-is-that-science-is-essentially-private-whereas-the/)

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> [The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the world adjust itself as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-williams-bridgman/the-first-business-of-a-man-of-science-is-to-proclaim-the-truth-as-he/)

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> [But ... the working scientist ... is not consciously following any prescribed course of action, but feels complete freedom to utilize any method or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-williams-bridgman/but-the-working-scientist-is-not-consciously-following-any-prescribed/)

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> [The result is that a generation of physicists is growing up who have never exercised any particular degree of individual initiative, who have had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-williams-bridgman/the-result-is-that-a-generation-of-physicists-is-growing-up-who-have/)

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> [“The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts towards science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the scientist for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-williams-bridgman/the-attitude-which-the-man-in-the-street-unconsciously-adopts-towards/)

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> [There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-williams-bridgman/there-is-no-adequate-defense-except-stupidity-against-the-impact-of-a/)

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> [In general, we mean by any concept nothing more than a set of operations; the concept is synonymous with the corresponding set of operations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-williams-bridgman/in-general-we-mean-by-any-concept-nothing-more-than-a-set-of/)

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> [The operational approach demands that we make our reports and do our thinking in the freshest terms of which we are capable, in which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-williams-bridgman/the-operational-approach-demands-that-we-make-our-reports-and-do-our/)

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> [“Not only are there meaningless questions, but many of the problems with which the human intellect has tortured itself turn out to be only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-williams-bridgman/not-only-are-there-meaningless-questions-but-many-of-the-problems/)

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> [If a specific question has meaning, it must be possible to find operations by which an answer may be given to it ... I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-williams-bridgman/if-a-specific-question-has-meaning-it-must-be-possible-to-find/)

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