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- I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed… — 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… — Alan Dershowitz
- So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least… — Richard Dawkins
- Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing. — Madeleine L'Engle
- 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… — 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… — 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,… — W. W. Rouse Ball