The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frigh... -Blaise Pascal

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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

Blaise Pascal , Philosopher
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Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and philosopher. He made significant contributions to mathematics and physics, and he is known for Pascal's law and Pascal's triangle. Pascal also wrote extensively on philosophy, exploring themes such as faith, skepticism, and the human condition. His works, including "Pensées" and "The Provincial Letters," have had a lasting impact on philosophy and literature. Pascal's intellectual pursuits and insights have made him a highly influential figure in the history of science and philosophy.

Blaise Pascal Quotes to Explore

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves....
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine,...
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience....
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world....
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness....
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous....
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction....
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone....
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants....
The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him....

Space Quotes to Explore

I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names of the astronauts, that nobody gets excited about launc...
More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidate...
We have never lost a crew member on the space station, but of course, the Columbia accident. I was - I'd already been an astronaut for a decade when t...
They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't ...
People come up to me and say, 'It's too bad the space program got canceled.' This is not the case, and yet that is what most of the public thinks has ...
When I left NASA, I was looking at how you could use space technologies for developing countries' work....
If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans....
After the loss of Columbia a couple of years ago, I think we were reminded of the risk. All of us, though, have always known that the Space Shuttle is...
The thing for me is that 'Thor' was an indie film that just had a few more zeros on the budget. At heart, it is just a simple story about a guy trying...
I've had a lot of experience with not allowing myself to experience certain emotions, like anger and confidence, and with acting you're in this space ...