Percy Williams Bridgman Quote

The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts toward science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the scientist for a highbrow, at another anathematizes him for blasphemously undermining his religion; but at the mention of a name like Edison he falls into a coma of veneration.


Reflections of a Physicist, Chapter 10 (p. 167), Philosophical Library. 1955


The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts toward science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the scientist for a...

The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts toward science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the scientist for a...

The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts toward science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the scientist for a...

The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts toward science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the scientist for a...