Blaise Pascal Death Anniversary Home Events Events on 19 August Blaise PascalDeath Anniversary Blaise Pascal died on 19 August, 1662 French mathematician, physicist and inventor famous for being one of the inventors of the mechanical calculator....
12. “If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.” —Blaise Pascal 35 0 Download 12 Wallpapers ...
— Blaise Pascal Pensées. As given and translated in Hugh Percy Jones (ed.), Dictionary of Foreign Phrases and Classical Quotations (1908), 292. Science quotes on: | Arm (82) | Arms (37) | Consciousness (132) | Death (406) | Drop (77) | Feeble (28) | Fly (153) | Heat (180...
In 1631, shortly after the death of his wife, Étienne Pascal moved with his children toParis. Étienne, who never remarried, decided that he alone would educate his children, for they all showed extraordinary intellectual ability, particularly his son Blaise. The young Pascal showed an amazin...
Pascal never completed his most influential work, the Pensées, but a version of his notes for that book appeared in print in 1670, eight years after his death, and it soon became a classic of devotional literature. Pascal also attained fame for his attack on casuistry, a popular ethical ...
Blaise Pascal Quotes About Reason Short Blaise Pascal Quotes Life Lessons Famous Blaise Pascal Quotes Top 10 Blaise Pascal Quotes If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose an...
Little is known of Pascal's personal life after his entry into Port Royal. Some of Pascal's scientific and mathematical works were not published until after his death. His "Treatise on the Equilibrium of Liquids," and his work on the links between theories involving liquids and gases, were ...
Death Always somewhat of a mystic, Pascal considered this a special summons to abandon the world. He wrote an account of the accident on a small piece of parchment, which for the rest of his life he wore next to his heart to perpetually remind him of his covenant. He moved to Port-Roy...
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the sam...
Pascal built upon the introduction and turned it into a tome that spelled out the philosophical underpinnings of geometric theory. However, this treatise was not even published until 100 years after his death. In the work, Pascal raised questions about being able to arrive at truths in geometry...