French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662)
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No, but perhaps to someone like Blaise Pascal they were.
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The 17th-century philosopher Blaise Pascal was disturbed by his scepticism and easy acceptance of human fallibility.
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Text taken from Blaise Pascal, Pensees (trans, and ed.
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This idea is often erroneously called Pascal's wager, after the philosopher and (thinking) mathematician Blaise Pascal.
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In 1639 the father of Blaise Pascal was sent down to Rouen as an "Intendant du Roi."
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The word "conversion," however, is too forcible to be applied at this point to Blaise Pascal himself.
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It is fitting that a physicist, Blaise Pascal, was one of the first thinkers seriously to entertain the possibility that God might not exist.
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Perhaps one of the first people to appreciate this and to take atheism seriously was the French physicist, mathematician and theologian Blaise Pascal (1623-62).
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Blaise Pascal is one of the chief intellectual glories of France.
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Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher, was a child prodigy.
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Blaise Pascal, the French mathematician, composed at sixteen a tract on the conic sections.
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" Blaise Pascal, I mean," I said.