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Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623August 19, 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. Pascal was a child prodigy, who was educated by his father. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences, where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators and the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by expanding the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote powerfully in defense of the scientific method. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"We like to be deceived."

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"Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden."

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"Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary."

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"The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory."

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"Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason."

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"Evil is easy, and has infinite forms."

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

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"Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience."

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"Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God."

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"Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other."

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