Pens�es

Blaise Pascal, The precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist. The Pensées (""Thoughts"") is a collection of fragments. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and The Pensées was in many ways his life's work. It represented Pascal's defense of the Christian religion, and the concept of ""Pascal's wager"" stems from a portion of this work. The Pensées is the name given posthumously to fragments that Pascal had been pre...