Gaston Bachelard

Frases de Gaston Bachelard

• “Science is the product of a thought process that refuses the obvious and is built against what is merely perceived.”

• “Knowledge of the real is a light that always casts some shadows.”

• “Opinion thinks poorly; it does not think: it translates needs into knowledge.”

• “For the scientific mind, all knowledge is an answer to a question. If there is no question, there can be no scientific knowledge.”

• “The house is our corner in the world. It is our first universe. It is, indeed, a cosmos.”

• “Reverie is the true rest for the spirit.”

• “One cannot possess the truth without having corrected an error, without having discovered an error.”

• “Fire is, among all phenomena, the only one that can so clearly receive two contrary values: good and evil.”

• “Imagining is the process that allows man to go beyond what he is.”

• “Nothing is self-evident. Nothing is given. Everything is constructed.”