Gaston Bachelard (French philosopher of science and literary theorist, 1884–1962). Author of The Poetics of Space, The Poetics of Reverie, The New Scientific Spirit and The Psychoanalysis of Fire. An enormously influential philosopher for later French thinkers, especially Althusser, Canguilhem and Foucault.
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- "And, irrespective of what one might assume, in the life of a science, problems do not arise by themselves. It is precisely this that marks out a problem as being of the true scientific spirit: all knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself. Nothing is given. All is constructed."
- It is the pen which dreams. (The Poetics of Reverie, 1960)
- It is not a question of observation which propels mankind forward as if toward a looking glass of great magnitude; it is an instance of aggrandized reflection that insinuates the human psyche to the inhuman.
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