But ... the working scientist ... is not consciously following any prescribed course of action, but feels complete freedom to utilize any method or device whatever which in the particular situation before him seems likely to yield the correct answer. ... No one standing on the outside can predict what the individual scientist will do or what method he will follow.
Percy Williams BridgmanThere is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.
Percy Williams BridgmanThe operational approach demands that we make our reports and do our thinking in the freshest terms of which we are capable, in which we strip off the sophistications of millenia of culture and report as directly as we can on what happens.
Percy Williams BridgmanScience is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.
Percy Williams Bridgman