Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascalwas a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalising the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defence of the scientific method...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth19 June 1623
CityClermont-Ferrand, France
CountryFrance
All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.
Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence.
Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.
Look for the truth, it wants to be found....
Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.
Symmetry is what we see at a glance.
We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.
A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.
When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.
All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.
If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you do not believe, but find in the next that there was a next, you are most unfortunate!
The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.
All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.
Things are always at their best in their beginning.