What is now proved was once only imagin'd.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1790-1793
Loci: Convergence
Mathematical Quotations
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Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)
There are two types of mind ... the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves.
Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)
However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.
Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)
The more I see of men, the better I like my dog.
Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)
The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men.
Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)
Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them.
[Written to Fermat]
Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)
Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us consider the two possibilities. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Hesitate not, then, to wager that He is.
Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)
[I feel] engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me. I am terrified. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me.
Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)
The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first.
Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)
What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, all in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.
Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)
Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long .... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.
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