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
If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself
And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force
A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.
The most powerful cause of error is the war existing between the senses and reason
How hollow and full of ribaldry is the heart of man!
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.