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Blaise Pascal
1623-1662 (Age at death: 39 approx.)
Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623, in Clermont-Ferrand, France - August 19, 1662, in Paris) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a civil servant. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators, the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defense of the scientific method.
Pascal was a mathematician of the first order. He helped create two major new areas of research. He wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of sixteen, and later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science. Following Galileo and Torricelli, in 1646 he refuted Aristotle's followers who insisted that nature abhors a vacuum. His results caused many disputes before being accepted.
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To ridicule philosophy is to philosophize |
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To speak the truth is useful to him to whom it is spoken, but disadvantageous to those who speak it, because they make themselves hated. |
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We are more forcibly persuaded, in general, by the reasons the we ourselves discover, than by those that come from the minds of others. |
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We carelessly run off a precipice, after having placed something before us to hinder us from seeing it. |
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We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. |
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We must not divert the mind, except to relax it, but at the proper time; to relax it when it is necessary, and not otherwise; for whoever relaxes inappropriately wearies; and whoever wearies inappropriately relaxes, for people then withdraw attention altogether: so pleased is the malice of desire to do just the opposite of what one wishes to obtain from us without giving us pleasure, which is the change for which we give all that is desired. |
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We naturally believe ourselves much more capable of reaching the center of things than of embracing their circumference. |
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We shall die alone. |
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What a chimera, then, is man! what a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a progidy! A judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depositary of the truth, cloaca of uncertainty and error, the glory and shame of the universe. |
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What ludicrous justice, that can be bounded by a river or mountain. |
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What most astonishes me is that all men are not astonished at their weakness. |
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``All men have happiness as their object; there is no exception.'' |
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