L’homme n’est qu’un roseau, le plus faible de la nature, mais c’est un roseau pensant. [Man is a reed, the feeblest thing in nature. But a reed that can think.] –Pascal Fourteen years ago, I commented ...

In the early 1600s, when the Renaissance was proposing enlightenment, Blais Pascal, a French mathematician, physicist, ...

Pascal’s Wager is an argument in philosophy that was developed by the 17th-century Philosopher Blaise Pascal. The premise of the argument hinges on the difficulty of knowing whether God exists.

After his return to Catholicism, Blaise Pascal proposed a famous wager in his masterwork Pensées (Thoughts), taking a mere paragraph to do it. Since the existence of God cannot be proven, Pascal took ...