What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, imbecile worm of the earth, depository of truth, a sewer of uncertainty and error, the glory and the scum of the universe!
— Blaise Pascal Early Modern

Pascal's Wager, mathematician

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Pensées

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1670 (posthumous)

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18269/18269-h/18269-h.htm

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