"By far the most important consequence of the……" — Percy Williams Bridgman
"By far the most important consequence of the conceptual revolution brought about in physics by relativity and quantum theory lies not in such details as that meter sticks shorten when they move or that simultaneous position and momentum have no meaning, but in the insight that we had not been using our minds properly and that it is important to find out how to do so."
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Percy Williams Bridgman
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17 Quotes by Percy Williams Bridgman
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The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the…
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My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated…
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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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It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
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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…
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The result is that a generation of physicists is growing up who have never exercised any particular degree of individual…
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I can see no justification whatever for the attitude which refuses on purely a priori grounds to accept action at…
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The feeling of understanding is as private as the feeling of pain. The act of understanding is at the heart…
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The operational approach demands that we make our reports and do our thinking in the freshest terms of which we…
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