Gaston Bachelard

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.

In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.