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It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The harder something is to acquire, the more satisfying it is when you finally find it.
— Wendy Mass
In general, we mean by any concept nothing more than a set of operations; the concept is synonymous with the corresponding set of operations.
— Percy Williams Bridgman
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
— Percy Williams Bridgman
There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.
— Percy Williams Bridgman
Coincidence is what you have left over when you apply a bad theory.
— Percy Williams Bridgman
The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
— Percy Williams Bridgman
Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
— Franz Grillparzer
Why should it be so difficult to carry something out right now when you think of it, to seize the instant?
— Yoshida Kenko
Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding.
— Percy Williams Bridgman
God has made of man and woman one complete whole. In the scheme of nature, both of them are equal.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.
— Percy Williams Bridgman
The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the world adjust itself as best it can to the new knowledge.
— Percy Williams Bridgman
Defeat is always momentary.
— Peter Jackson
flying from work is never the way to find peace.
— Swami Vivekananda