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Blaise Pascal
(19 Jun 1623 - 19 Aug 1662)
French mathematician and physicist who was a child prodigy. In mathematics, he developed a theory of probabilities. In physics, he invented the hydraulic press and formulated Pascal’s Law for pressure.
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Blaise Pascal
“Flies are so mighty”
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When Blaise Pascal died, at the young at of 39, he left hundreds of his first notes for a largely unfinished text—as in Sainte-Beuve's words, a tower of which the stones have been laid on each other, but not cemented, and the structure unfinished.1 If completed, his book was to have been a a defense of Christianity. The fragments were published eight years later, in 1670, as Pensées (Thoughts). They demonstrate his genius including not only the science for which he is remembered, but they also had the nature of a psychologist and a moralist.
The quote above was translated from its original French:
La puissance des mouches. Elles gagnent des batailles, empêchent notre âme d’agir, mangent notre corps.
Additional science-related Pensées can be read on the quotation page for Blaise Pascal on this site, as listed in the links below.
- Science Quotes by Blaise Pascal.
- 19 Jun - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Pascal's birth.
- Blaise Pascal - context of quote “Flies are so mighty” - Medium image (500 x 250 px)
- Blaise Pascal - context of quote “Reasons we have ourselves discovered” - Medium image (500 x 250 px)
- Blaise Pascal - context of quote “Reasons we have ourselves discovered” - Large image (800 x 400 px)
- Blaise Pascal - context of quote “Knowledge of morality” - Medium image (500 x 250 px)
- Blaise Pascal - context of quote “Knowledge of morality” - Large image (800 x 400 px)