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[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.   Pascal, Blaise

Source: BLAISE PASCAL, Pascals Pensees, trans. Martin Turnell, part 1, section 6, p. 133 . · This quote is about uncategorised · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.


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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.

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