Quote of Gaston Bachelard - If only these metaphysicians would give...
Biography - Gaston Bachelard:
French philosopher.
Born: 1884 - Died: 1962
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1884 - Died: 1962
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
If only these metaphysicians would give their attention to the lengthy discursive processes which lead science to build new intuitions.
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Quotes about science:
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
Quotes for: intuition
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
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