Experience is of particulars only.

- Abraham Kaplan

The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.

- Abraham Kaplan

We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife.

- Abraham Kaplan

Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the sma…

- Abraham Kaplan

A philosophy which speaks, even indirectly, only to philosophers is no philosophy at all; and I think the same is true if it speaks only to scientist…

- Abraham Kaplan

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

- Abraham Kaplan

Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.

- Abraham Kaplan

To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, "What would the world be like if it were true?" The operationist asks, "What would …

- Abraham Kaplan

In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist. I call it the law…

- Abraham Kaplan