Action Quote 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…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

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

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

Coincidence is what you have left over when you apply a bad theory.

— Percy Williams Bridgman

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

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

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

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

“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

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

— Percy Williams Bridgman

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

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