— 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 the 1640s mathematician Blaise Pascal invented the Pascaline, an early calculator, and further validated Evangelista Torricelli's theory concerning the cause of barometrical variations. In the 1650s, Pascal laid the foundation of probability theory with Pierre de Fermat and published the theological...
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