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Your Quotes for 19 June 2006 - Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal was born at Clermont-Ferrand, in the Auvergne region of France, on this day in 1623. Educated at home by his father, he was a child prodigy and made significant contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators and the study of fluids. In mathematics he published a treatise on projection geometry (whatever that is!) at age sixteen and his work in probability theory is still important in economics today. In 1654 he had a vision upon awaking from a coma following a carriage accident, and devoted the rest of his life to philosophy and theology, the source of the quotes below.

Despite the sight of all the miseries which affect us and hold us by the throat we have an irrepressible instinct which bears us up.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.

Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only his image.

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.
     - All from Blaise Pascal, 1623 - 1662

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