Blaise Pascal

To paraphrase Blaise Pascal: I lacked the time to make it short.

7 entries from March 2008 2008

To paraphrase Blaise Pascal: I lacked the time to make it short.

SPC 2008 -- BillG Keynote 2008

'William Guthrie was a great melancholian,' says Wodrow, and as we read that we are reminded of some other great melancholians, such as Blaise Pascal and John Foster and William Cowper.

Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

If the child is a mathematical genius -- there have been instances in history, such as Blaise Pascal -- he would not, of course, receive elementary instruction in a subject with which he was already acquainted. "

The Wonder 1910

As the seventeenth-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal said, reflecting on the religious wars in his era, “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

This reminded me of a quote from Blaise Pascal's Pensées: A reed only is man, the frailest in the world, but a reed that thinks.

Govindini Murty: A Conversation With Werner Herzog, Part I: Into the Abyss Govindini Murty 2011

It starts with a Pascal quote "The collapse of the universe will occur like the creation in grandiose splendor," and underneath it says Blaise Pascal, but I invented it - and of course Pascal couldn't have said it better.

Govindini Murty: A Conversation With Werner Herzog, Part I: Into the Abyss Govindini Murty 2011

Blaise Pascal, that ring true: «And Pascal, if we restore to him his original violence, can produce nervous upheaval much more violent than the most violent of heavy metal bands»; and, «Of course, there was doubtless a hidden flaw that made me fall this way, head first, without any resistance whatsoever, into the abyss Pascal opened at my feet.

Marie-Laure Delorme: Provocation and Silence in Public Enemies Marie-Laure Delorme 2011

With their references to topology, Kurt Gödel, Blaise Pascal, Gnosticism and ancient Egyptian metaphysics, they imply that visitors should at the very least know a few theorems of set theory to have any hope of fully appreciating the bright, colorful things in these rooms.

Too Restless for the Rules Richard B. Woodward 2011

I point out that they probably do, but that it makes no difference because Blaise Pascal's declaration that "Reason can determine nothing here" is practically the motto of English football, and now without so much as a by-your-leave the sofa-based cheerleading was directed elsewhere.

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