Who is Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal ( pass-KAL, also UK: -⁠KAHL, PASS-kəl, -⁠kal, US: pahs-KAHL; French: [blɛz paskal]; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, writer, and Catholic theologian.

He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pascal's earliest mathematical work was on conic sections; he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of 16. He later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science. In 1642, while still a teenager, he started some pioneering work on calculating machines (called Pascal's calculators and later Pascalines), establishing him as one of the first two inv...
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Blaise Pascal Quotes

• All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
• The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
• It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
• Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.
• Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

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Comments about Blaise Pascal

• Mike_may_quotes: we must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people. (blaise pascal, 1623–1662)
• Ownsmoke: "people almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive." blaise pascal, the art of persuasion
• Ogferan: all of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” — blaise pascal
• Bobunny503: "in faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't. " --blaise pascal
• 3stoneentertain: the heart has its reasons which reason knows not of. ~blaise pascal

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