Pascal and Clotilde remained entire afternoons without exchanging a word; and there were continual outbursts of ill-humor.

Pascal, for example, who was at once a pietist, a mathematician, and a philosopher, says in this threefold capacity: God is everywhere center and nowhere periphery.

Bacon was a great benefactor when he separated the world of physical Nature from the world of Mind; and Pascal was equally a profound philosopher when he showed that faith could not take cognizance of science, nor science of faith.

As a defender of the needs and rights of the heart, Pascal is a forerunner of the great Rousseau.

Pascal, Biot, Buffon, or Laplace are examples of the clearness and beauty with which ideas may be presented wearing all the graces of fine literature, and losing none of the severity of science.

I know very well that Pascal is not a fool, that he has written remarkable works, that his communications to the Academy of Medicine have even won for him a reputation among savants.

To all that Doctor Pascal is a positivist.