Blaise Pascal, born in 1623, showed that being intelligent doesn’t solve the problem of being human. He was a great scientist and mathematician. Yet he knew neither discipline could explain purpose, ...

Blaise Pascal’s ideas have led to some of the world’s most important inventions. API/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images In fact, Pascal’s influence in the modern world extends so far that biographer James A ...

Blaise Pascal, the French philosopher, was born four hundred years ago, on June 19, 1623. He is among those modernist thinkers who are difficult even to categorize. At the age of 16, Blaise published ...

We are commemorating this month the tercentenary of the death of Blaise Pascal. Pascal said in his Pensées that the last thing we discover when writing a book, is what to put first. After having ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blaise Pascal's ideas have led to some of the world's most important inventions. API/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images In an apostolic ...

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