Blaise Pascal
Brief Bio: French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer
Lived: 1623-1662
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Quotes:
“Man is nobler than the universe”
When the universe has crushed him man will still be nobler than that which kills him, because he knows that he is dying, and of its victory the universe knows nothing.
1670 from the book Pensées