In an apostolic letter released on June 19, 2023, Pope Francis praised the “brilliant and inquisitive mind” of the influential French philosopher Blaise Pascal, born on that date 400 years ago. In ...

A rt and luxury auction house Christie’s has withdrawn the world’s first calculating machine, designed by French ...

Blaise Pascal, the French philosopher, was born four hundred years ago, on June 19, 1623. He is among those modernist thinkers who are difficult even to categorize. At the age of 16, Blaise published ...

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 ...

This year’s Thanksgiving Day—November 23—was not only our national day of remembrance but a significant religious anniversary: 369 years to the day since Blaise Pascal’s “Night of Fire.” That deeply ...

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(The Conversation) — Blaise Pascal, a mathematician and a Catholic theologian, born 400 years ago, left a deep and lasting influence on the world that can be felt today. In fact, Pascal’s influence in ...