Accepting Quote by 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 an attitude bespeaks an unimaginativeness, a mental obtuseness and obstinacy.”

Percy Williams Bridgman

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But ... the working scientist ... is not consciously following any prescribed course of action, but feels complete freedom to utilize any method or…

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

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In general, we mean by any concept nothing more than a set of operations; the concept is synonymous with the corresponding set of operations.

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