Just as we talk of poetic beauty, so we should also talk of… - Blaise Pascal

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Just as we talk of poetic beauty, so we should also talk of mathematical beauty and medicinal beauty. But we do not talk like that for the very good reason that we know what the object of mathematics is, namely proof; and what the object of medicine is, namely cure; but we do not know what constitutes the attraction which is the object of poetry.

Blaise Pascal

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Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, logician, physicist and theologian.

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Pen Names: Louis de Montalte • Amos Dettonville • Salomon de Tultie

Alternative Names: Pascal • Dettonville • Paskal Blez

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It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

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