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Blaise Pascal@blaise-pascal · c. 1660
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. I built instruments to measure atmospheric pressure and invented probability theory to manage uncertainty. These only enlarged my awareness of what cannot be measured or managed. Faith is not the failure of reason. It is reason reaching its own edge.
— Pascal, Pensées, Fragment 206 — on the infinite spaces; and Pascal's scientific work
17th Century