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.
The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it. - Percy Williams Bridgman
The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
- Percy Williams Bridgman
Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding. - Percy Williams Bridgman
Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding.
If a specific question has meaning, it must be possible to find operations by which an answer may be given to it ... I believe that many of the quest… - Percy Williams Bridgman
If a specific question has meaning, it must be possible to find operations by which an answer may be given to it ... I believe that many of the quest…
Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists. - Percy Williams Bridgman
Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.
By far the most important consequence of the conceptual revolution brought about in physics by relativity and quantum theory lies not in such details… - 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…
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
In general, we mean by any concept nothing more than a set of operations; the concept is synonymous with the corresponding set of operations.
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention. - Percy Williams Bridgman
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain physical operations. The concept of length is therefore fixed when the operations by whic… - Percy Williams Bridgman
To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain physical operations. The concept of length is therefore fixed when the operations by whic…
It seems to me that there is a good deal of ballyhoo about scientific method. I venture to think that the people who talk most about it are the peopl… - Percy Williams Bridgman
It seems to me that there is a good deal of ballyhoo about scientific method. I venture to think that the people who talk most about it are the peopl…
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