Percy Williams Bridgman Quote

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

[:]Atheism by itself is, of course, not a moral position or a political one of any kind; it simply is the refusal to believe in a supernatural dimension. For you to say of Nazism that it was the imple...

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: 'Who's the third?

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

The total number of people who understand relativistic time, even after eighty years since the advent of special relativity, is still much smaller than the number of people who believe in horoscopes.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice.

Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered among us. So Einstein is revered not just because he made...

What Albert Einstein termed optical delusion,The Indians termed Maya or Illusion.