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Percy Williams Bridgman has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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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…
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Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.
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I believe it to be of particular importance that the scientist have an articulate and adequate social philosophy, even more important than…
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It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
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By far the most important consequence of the conceptual revolution brought about in physics by relativity and quantum theory lies not in…
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Coincidence is what you have left over when you apply a bad theory.
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Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the…
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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…
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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…
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The feeling of understanding is as private as the feeling of pain. The act of understanding is at the heart of all…
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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,…
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In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true.…
— Edward Teller
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Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millenia, and it has been another…
— Daniel Dennett
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If the Pope were to deny that the death penalty could be an exercise of retributive justice, he would be overthrowing the…
— Avery Dulles
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I am an optimist and I believe that together we shall be able now to make the right historical choice so as…
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away.
— Daniel Taylor
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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,…
— Percy Williams Bridgman
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Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders,…
— Eric Hoffer
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