Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

19-Jun-1623

France

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In the 1640s mathematician Blaise Pascal coined Pascalaline, the first calculator, and reaffirmed Evangelista Torricelli's view of the cause of curriculum variability. In the 1650s, Pascal laid the groundwork for the idea of ​​Predre de Fermat and published the work of theologian Les Provinciales, a powerful series of works in defense of his Jansenist faith. Pascal is widely known for his body of notes after his release as Pensées.

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Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

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"The heart has its reasons which reason knows not."

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"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone."

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"I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter." (Letter 16, 1657)"

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"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."

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"I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise."

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"I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter."

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"To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher."

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"Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much."

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