Word: bridgman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sooner many of our scientists like Professor Bridgman acknowledge the implications of the completely materialistic interpretation of man, the sooner will our moral state be on the road to improvement . . . For those of us who are not wrapped up in an intensive study of one aspect of the universe, based on a particular philosophical conception, the idea doesn't seem to make such a workable living standard...
Sharply opposed to Maritain were Harvard's crusty Nobel Prizewinning physicist Percy Bridgman and tall, good-humored Walter Stace, Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton. Bridgman presented the materialistic scientist's view mat the scientific method is enough to guide man, and that problems which could not be dealt with scientifically should be ignored...
...Percy W. Bridgman '04, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, denied "that science is in some way inimical to a realization by man of the highest virtue within him," at a discussion about "Science, Materialism, and the Human Spirit." He spoke jointly with two Princeton professors of philosophy and Julius S. Bixler, president of Colby College...
Down in the basement of Lyman Labs, Nobel Prizewinner Percy W. Bridgman is learning what happens to things when you squeeze them hard. With huge hydraulic presses, Bridgman has squeezed one cubic inch of matter with the pressure of 1000 trailer trucks...
...intelligent attack" must be made on these problems, he said, "if we are to escape the fate which almost engulfed physics." Bridgman referred to how indefinite terminology seriously bogged down science in the last century. If modern man becomes precise in his definitions of vague words like "democracy," he argued, then difficulties over values may disappear...