Coincidence Quote by Percy Williams Bridgman Download Open image “Coincidence is what you have left over when you apply a bad theory.” — Percy Williams Bridgman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Coincidence Inspirational Left Love Theory
I don't believe in coincidence. I just think that all things work together for good. — Kathie Lee Gifford Copy Share Image
Doesn't believe in coincidences. Things happen for unknown reasons sometimes, and when years pass, we then realize what those reasons were all about. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous. — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
There aren't any coincidences. I think things really happen for a reason. — Patty Smyth 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
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
It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
It was an odd coincidence that my career took off the same decade as having babies. I often wished it had been different, that… — Jane Kaczmarek Copy Share Image
“Every emotion in the world wishes to be expressed, every task desires to be done. Coincidence is the perfect texture.” — Patricia Geary Copy Share Image
It's not coincidence that these attacks come at the exact same moment, and all together at the same time as WikiLeaks releases documents exposing… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“You wonder if that really constitutes being ‘a coincidence’ but don’t press her on the issue, instead sticking your hand down your pocket to… — Rudolf Kerkhoven Copy Share Image
A thrumming of piano-strings beyond the gardens and through the elms. At length the melody steals into my being. I know not when it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We cannot see how our lives will unfold. What is destiny and What is accident? And how can one ever be certain?” — Cathy Ostlere Copy Share Image
When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
