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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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As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and…
— John Henrik Clarke
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It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
— Percy Williams Bridgman
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If we don't have a clear sense of our identity and purpose, we are much more vulnerable to Lucifer. He of course…
— Sheri L. Dew
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Since ancient times, the philosophers' secret has always been this: we know that God does not exist, or, at least, if he…
— Robert J. Sawyer
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A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds.
— David Chalmers
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An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
— Andrew Lang
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Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and…
— Terry Pratchett
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Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my…
— Isaac Asimov
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Karrin Murphy led the charge, and Sanya and I tried to keep up. She went through that sea of foes like a…
— Jim Butcher
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He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and...unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.
— Josh Lanyon
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And yet there was something about his strength, his arrogance, his sheer size that got under my skin. He probably couldn't even…
— Josh Lanyon
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