Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and the experimental: Experimentation must give way to argument, and argument must have recourse to experimentation.


The New Scientific Spirit (1934), trans. A. Goldhammer (1984), 3–4

Gaston Bachelard Quotes

Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and...

Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and...

Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and...

Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and...