Life and Work
Bachelard was a postmaster in Bar-sur-Aube, and then studied physics before finally becoming interested in philosophy. He was a professor at Dijon from 1930 to 1940 and then became the inaugural chair in history and philosophy of the sciences at the Sorbonne.
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Famous quotes containing the words life and/or work:
“His life was a sort of dream, as are most lives with the mainspring left out.”
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“‘Men work together,’ I told him from the heart,
‘Whether they work together or apart.’”
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