Pascal Quotes

38 quotes by 32 authors

I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I… — Andrea Bocelli
I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating… — Alan Dershowitz
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth. — Malcolm Muggeridge
Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not… — William James
Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were abandoning the study… — Charles Sanders Peirce
Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler, Cavalieri, Pascal, Fermat,… — W. W. Rouse Ball
Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one… — Anatole France
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Go is most fun I've had with a compiled PL since I've discovered Turbo Pascal as a kid. — Bojan Markovic
I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz, Pascalâ€¦ like all… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy
The Christian religion, [Pascal] claims, teaches two truths: that there is a God who men are capable of knowing, and that there is an element… — William Lane Craig
You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of… — Greg Egan
Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle whose… — Catharine Cox Miles
The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms. — Aldous Huxley
If you want a language that tries to lock up all the sharp objects and fire-making implements, use Pascal or Ada: the Nerf languages, harmless… — Scott Fahlman
If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert -… — Bruce Chatwin
I often think . . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders, Barnes & Noble,… — James V. Schall
In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed… — Lytton Strachey
In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest. After we handled… — Barbara Kingsolver
Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind. — Billy Graham

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