pascal

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1. pascal - Noun

2. Pascal - Proper noun

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French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662)

a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter

a programing language designed to teach programming through a top-down modular approach

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You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain; unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men. Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal. Blaise Pascal

In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought. Lytton Strachey

Pascal touched God behind the veil of scepticism. Henry Adams

There is not one who speaks of us in our presence as he does in our absence," wrote Pascal. "All affection is based on this mutual deception, and few friendships would survive if we knew what our friends were saying of us behind our backs. André Maurois

Pascal said that if geometry stirred us emotionally as much as politics we would not be able to expound it so well. André Maurois

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