"The feeling of understanding is as private as……" — Percy Williams Bridgman
"The feeling of understanding is as private as the feeling of pain. The act of understanding is at the heart of all scientific activity; without it any ostensibly scientific activity is as sterile as that of a high school student substituting numbers into a formula. For this reason, science, when I push the analysis back as far as I can, must be private."
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Percy Williams Bridgman
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