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- French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662)
How To Use Blaise Pascal In A Sentence
- When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a laborer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do. Blaise Pascal
- People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive. Blaise Pascal
- Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves. Blaise Pascal
- Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him. Blaise Pascal
- Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it. Blaise Pascal
- The only shame is to have none. Blaise Pascal
- A few cogwheels in Blaise Pascal's seventeenth century calculator perform the entire procedure of addition better and faster than a human mind.
- Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen. Blaise Pascal
- When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a laborer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do. Blaise Pascal
- Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. Blaise Pascal