Adequate Quote by Percy Williams Bridgman Download Open image “There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.” — Percy Williams Bridgman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adequate Adequate Defense Defense Defense Stupidity Ideas Impact New idea New ideas Science Stupid Stupidity Stupidity Impact Technology
“When I advocate for protecting the new, then, I am using the word somewhat differently. I am saying that when someone hatches an original… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
When one's ideas are not challenged, one's ability to defend them weakens. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There is no substantive, rational defense; I mean, the other side doesn't have a case. — Fred Phelps Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of bad ideas. They must be refuted again and again. — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I'm afraid that it's not possible to design a defense against every conceivable threat that you can think of. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of… — John Thune Copy Share Image
If you think my idea is awful, you should say as much. But there is a difference between attacking an idea and attacking the… — Dan Crenshaw 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
Coincidence is what you have left over when you apply a bad theory. — 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
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
What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are unable to… — Ernest Gold Copy Share Image
And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration… — Jon Corzine Copy Share Image
All the world’s major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness, can and do promote inner values. But the reality… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until… — Dan Gelber Copy Share Image
All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly not constructive. For if the… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf feels, a… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
In sum, the Court's conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court's own judgment will not allow to be… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
