Pascal

Famous quotes containing the word pascal:

    The only shame is to have none.
    —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

    The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.
    —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

    Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?
    —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)