The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. Gaston Bachelard More Quotes by Gaston Bachelard More Quotes From Gaston Bachelard 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. Gaston Bachelard The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth. Gaston Bachelard hears subconscious truth listening