Quotes by Percy Williams Bridgman

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“Not only are there meaningless questions, but many of the problems with which the human intellect has tortured itself turn out to be only 'pseudo problems,' because they can be formulated only in t...”
— Percy Williams Bridgman, The Nature of Physical Theory
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“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 ...”
— Percy Williams Bridgman
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“I believe it to be of particular importance that the scientist have an articulate and adequate social philosophy, even more important than the average man should have a philosophy. For there are ce...”
— Percy Williams Bridgman, Reflections of a Physicist
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