All Percy Williams Bridgman Quotes
- The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the world adjust itself as best… Adjust
- My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the articles… Almost Universal
- Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists. Individual
- I believe it to be of particular importance that the scientist have an articulate and adequate social philosophy, even more important than the average man… Adequate
- It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention. Evident
- By far the most important consequence of the conceptual revolution brought about in physics by relativity and quantum theory lies not in such details as… Been
- Coincidence is what you have left over when you apply a bad theory. Apply
- Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding. All
- The result is that a generation of physicists is growing up who have never exercised any particular degree of individual initiative, who have had no… Any
- I can see no justification whatever for the attitude which refuses on purely a priori grounds to accept action at a distance ... Such an… Accept
- The feeling of understanding is as private as the feeling of pain. The act of understanding is at the heart of all scientific activity; without… Act
- The operational approach demands that we make our reports and do our thinking in the freshest terms of which we are capable, in which we… Approach
- To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain physical operations. The concept of length is therefore fixed when the operations by… Certain
- If a specific question has meaning, it must be possible to find operations by which an answer may be given to it ... I believe… Answer
- The process that I want to call scientific is a process that involves the continual apprehension of meaning, the constant appraisal of significance accompanied by… Accepting
- There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea. Adequate
- ... the scientist would maintain that knowledge in of itself is wholly good, and that there should be and are methods of dealing with misuses… Bully