"Coincidence is what you have left over when……" — Percy Williams Bridgman
"Coincidence is what you have left over when you apply a bad theory."
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Percy Williams Bridgman
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17 Quotes by Percy Williams Bridgman
Percy Williams Bridgman has 17 quotes on this site.
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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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I believe it to be of particular importance that the scientist have an articulate and adequate social philosophy, even more…
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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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By far the most important consequence of the conceptual revolution brought about in physics by relativity and quantum theory lies…
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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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To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain physical operations. The concept of length is therefore…
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