 Bridgman’s battle against his own skeptical and pessimistic conscience was a heroic one. After decades of operationalist thinking he arrived at “a picture of man isolated … in an oasis of phenomena which he will never be able to transcend because beyond its bounds the operations are impossible which are necessary to give meaning to his thought” (Bridgman 1955, 540). What this picture forced on him was a deep sense of humility, as expressed in his memorable statement on the scientific method: “The scientific method, as far as it is a method, is nothing more than doing one’s damnedest with one’s mind, no holds barred” (1955, 535). Retaining that sense of humility will help us in developing Bridgman’s unfinished thoughts to create a new operationalism that does full justice to the complexity and richness of both nature and human scientific practice.