Blaise Pascal Quotes About Science
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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
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Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.
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You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.
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The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.
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I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate on such subjects disgusted me with them. When I began to study man, I saw that these abstract sciences are not suited to him, and that in diving into them, I wandered farther from my real object than those who knew them not, and I forgave them for not having attended to these things. I expected then, however, that I should find some companions in the study of man, since it was so specifically a duty. I was in error. There are fewer students of man than of geometry.
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We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers are finite, it is therefore true that there is a numerical infinity. But we know not of what kind; it is untrue that it is even, untrue that it is odd; for the addition of a unit does not change its nature; yet it is a number, and every number is odd or even (this certainly holds of every finite number). Thus we may quite well know that there is a God without knowing what He is.
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The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.
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Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
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Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
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