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Blaise Pascal Quotes about Math

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The best defense against logic is ignorance.

The best defense against logic is ignorance.

Ignorance, Math, Defense

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Math, Men, Logic

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Math, Ordinary Extraordinary, Intelligence

When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.

Math, Intuition, Logic

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

Math, Intelligence, Uncertain

Blaise Pascal (1850). “The Thoughts on religion, and evidences of Christianity, of Pascal; tr., with intr., notes, etc., by G. Pearce”, p.99

Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.

Math, Perfect, Damage

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

Humility, Pride, Math

I feel engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me.

Math, Space, Silence

"The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal". Book by Blaise Pascal, published by Kegan Paul. Chapter "The Misery of Man Without God", 1885.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.

Heart, Math, Reason

Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves.

Love, Math, Views

To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.

Horse, Believe, Math

"Pensees".

We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.

Math, Vanity, People

Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Nature, Math, Garden

Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.

Father, Math, Long

Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better.

Math, Play, Tennis

Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

Math, Men, Doe

c.1654-1662 Pense es, no.139 (translated byA Krailsheimer).

However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.

Spiritual, Passion, Math

Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

Math, Religion, Trouble

Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth.

Math, Depth, Demand

Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a glance and are not used to seeking for first principles. Those, on the other hand, who are accustomed to reason from first principles do not understand matters of feeling at all, because they look for first principles and are unable to comprehend at a glance.

Math, Hands, Judging

I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess.

Work, Distance, Math

We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain time, we do worry. How long does this time have to be?

Time, Math, Long

All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.

Mistake, Lying, Math

Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.

Reading, Writing, Math

Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will say. But I have no concern for mathematics; he would take me for a proposition. "That one is a good soldier." He would take me for a besieged town. I need, that is to say, a decent man who can accommodate himself to all my desires in a general sort of way.

Love, Math, Men

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