The feeling of understanding is as private as the feeling of pain. The act of understanding is at the heart of all scientific activity; without it any ostensibly scientific activity is as sterile as that of a high school student substituting numbers into a formula. For this reason, science, when I push the analysis back as far as I can, must be private.


Reflections of a Physicist (1950)

Percy Williams Bridgman Quotes

The feeling of understanding is as private as the feeling of pain. The act of understanding is at the heart of all scientific activity; without it...

The feeling of understanding is as private as the feeling of pain. The act of understanding is at the heart of all scientific activity; without it...

The feeling of understanding is as private as the feeling of pain. The act of understanding is at the heart of all scientific activity; without it...

The feeling of understanding is as private as the feeling of pain. The act of understanding is at the heart of all scientific activity; without it...