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.

Les Pensées sont les papiers retrouvés à la mort de Blaise Pascal. Une grosse partie de ces fragments, environ 80 %, sont les travaux préparatoires d’une Apologie de la religion chrétienne que Pascal ...

There is a chance that there is no God, Pascal (1623-62) admitted. But if you were to live a life of dissolution, and it turned out that everything said in the Bible is true, you would be condemned.

August 19, 1662. Blaise Pascal died.—A religious philosopher, mathematician, and physicist, the author of the “Provincial Letters” and the “Pensees,” Pascal spent the earlier part of his ...