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Blaise Pascal
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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
— De l'Art de persuader ["On the Art of Persuasion"], written 1658; published posthumously.
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
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A 17th-century polymath who invented an early mechanical calculator at 21, laid groundwork for probability theory, proved that vacuums exist against centuries of dogma, and closed his life writing a famous wager about God framed as a bet worth taking.
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Blaise Pascal was educated at home by his father, a tax collector in Rouen, and published a treatise on conic sections at 16. In 1642 he began work on calculating machines now called Pascalines, making him one of the first inventors of the mechanical calculator. He corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, shaping modern economics and social science, and in 1647 rebutted Aristotle and Descartes by demonstrating that nature does not abhor a vacuum, clarifying concepts of pressure that now carry his name in the SI unit. In 1646 he and his sister Jacqueline turned toward Jansenism…
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Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ, by commanding his followers to lay down their own lives.
— Thoughts on Religion and Philosophy (W. Collins, 1838), Ch. XVI, p. 202
Blaise Pascal
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Do not imagine that it is less an accident by which you find yourself master of the wealth which you possess, than that by which this man found himself king.
Blaise Pascal
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The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.
Blaise Pascal
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This right which you have, is not founded any more than his upon any quality or any merit in yourself which renders you worthy of it.
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