Lines by Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist and writer · 1623–1662
Blaise Pascal built a calculating machine as a teenager and did early work on probability and pressure. His Pensées are notes for a defence of faith, left unfinished at his death.
The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.
Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point.
Pensées, 277 (Brunschvicg), 423 (Lafuma)
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