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Gaston Bachelard was a French philosopher who specialized in the philosophy of science.
* He was born in Bar-sur-Aube, France, in 1884.
* He studied mathematics and philosophy at the University of Paris.
* He taught at the University of Dijon and the Sorbonne.
* He is best known for his work on the epistemology of science, which is the study of the nature of scientific knowledge.
* He argued that scientific knowledge is not a fixed body of knowledge, but rather a dynamic process of construction.
* He also argued that the imagination plays an important role in scientific discovery.
* He died in Paris in 1962.

Here are some of his most notable works:

* **The New Scientific Spirit** (1934)
* **The Formation of the Scientific Mind** (1938)
* **The Poetics of Space** (1958)
* **The Water and Dreams** (1942)
* **The Psychoanalysis of Fire** (1938)

Bachelard's work has been influential in a number of fields, including philosophy, science, and education. He is considered one of the most important philosophers of science of the 20th century.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

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