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
Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.
The best defense against logic is ignorance.
Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.
When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
It is not certain that everything is uncertain.
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.
If all persons knew what they said of each other there would not be four friends in the world