Blaise Pascal

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in Clermont-Ferrand, France

June 19, 1623

died

August 19, 1662

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Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Science

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Blaise Pascal 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 influe...more

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	Pensées by Blaise Pascal, A.J. Krailsheimer (Translator) 3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 4,114 ratings — published 1669 — 144 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Human Happiness 3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent 4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1989 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Provincial Letters 3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1847 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Foundations of the Christian Religion (Foundations of Faith) 3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2006	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selections from the Thoughts 3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1965	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works (Harvard Classics, Part 48) 4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1910 — 8 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Les Provinciales Pensees Et Opuscules Divers by Blaise Pascal, Pascal 3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2004	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Discours sur les passions de l'amour 3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1995 — 7 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Great Books of the Western World (Vol. 33 - Pascal) 3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1952	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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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