"Look somewhere else for someone who can..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.”

“All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.”

“We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.”

“With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.”

“How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?”

“I found during the course of my political career on the national scene there's a point where the vanity burns away and you've had your fill of your name in the papers, or big adoring crowds, or the exercise of power. And for me that happened fairly quickly. And then you are really focused on: What am I going to get done with this strange privilege that's been granted to me? How do I make myself worthy of it?”

“7 x 7 plus love = An amount Infinitely above: 7 x 7 - love.”

“To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit; but at the same time I know that it is so useless that I make little distinction between a man who is only a mathematician and a common artisan. Also, I call it the most beautiful profession in the world; but it is only a profession.”

“The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.”