We cannot prove the (non-)existence of God, but we can ask what might happen if we played strategic games with Him.

Blaise Pascal’s fragmentary notes veer from personal observation to systematic theology. Many of his aphorisms have become commonplace wisdom.

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 ...

What Pascal missed was that creativity does not inherently lead to unethical conduct. Creativity is a particular form of power: the power to see new possibilities more clearly than others do.

The tercentenary of the birth of Blaise Pascal (born June 19, 1623, died August 19, 1662) was celebrated at Clermont-Ferrand in a series of fêtes at which the President of the French Republic, M ...

Niklaus Wirth, software developer who saw power in simplicity, dies at 89 ‘The art in engineering is not so much to make something very complicated,’ Dr. Wirth said. ‘The art is to make a ...

With Americans marrying ever later and loneliness on the rise, we should worry less about how excessive desire may lead the young into folly and more about how excessive caution relegates them to ...

They range from Blaise Pascal and René Descartes (in the 17th century) to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (in the 18th century) to Kurt Gödel (in the 20th century), whose writings on the subject were ...

Pedro Pascal's tattoos include seven designs that are hidden on his body. The actor's tattoos hold significant meaning to him.

THE tercentenary of the birth of Blaise Pascal (born June 19, 1623, died August 19, 1662) was celebrated at Clermont-Ferrand in a series of fetes at which the President of the French Republic, M ...