Gaston Bachelard's Quote - Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeat

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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeat

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid. – Gaston Bachelard

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One must always maintain ones connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort. – Gaston Bachelard

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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. – Gaston Bachelard

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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. – Gaston Bachelard

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