“The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts towards science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the scientist for a highbrow, at another anathematizes him for blasphemously undermining his religion; but at the mention of… — 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… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
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
The operational approach demands that we make our reports and do our thinking in the freshest terms of which we are capable, in which… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
“Not only are there meaningless questions, but many of the problems with which the human intellect has tortured itself turn out to be only… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
If a specific question has meaning, it must be possible to find operations by which an answer may be given to it ... I… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
