Percy Williams Bridgman Quote

As at present constructed, mathematics reminds one of the loquacious and not always coherent orator, who was said to be able to set his mouth going and go off and leave it.


The Logic of Modern Physics, Chapter II (p. 63), The Macmillan Company. 1927


As at present constructed, mathematics reminds one of the loquacious and not always coherent orator, who was said to be able to set his mouth going...

As at present constructed, mathematics reminds one of the loquacious and not always coherent orator, who was said to be able to set his mouth going...

As at present constructed, mathematics reminds one of the loquacious and not always coherent orator, who was said to be able to set his mouth going...

As at present constructed, mathematics reminds one of the loquacious and not always coherent orator, who was said to be able to set his mouth going...