Blaise Pascal was a famous French mathematician and philosopher. As a converter to Christianity, Pascal’s beliefs would come to extensively influence the religion and its practice. He also engaged in ...

Blaise Pascal’s ideas have led to some of the world’s most important inventions. API/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images In fact, Pascal’s influence in the modern world extends so far that biographer James A ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...