Quotation from Pensees by Blaise Pascal

A single-line fragment, often read as the voice of the unbeliever confronting the new cosmology rather than Pascal's own.

Citation: "The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me" — Blaise Pascal, Pensees, Fragment 206, Section III, trans. W. F. Trotter (1908). (id pensees-q9)

Portrait: Blaise Pascal (1623-1672), unknown; a copy of the painting of François II Quesnel, which was made for Gérard Edelinck en 1691 [réf. nécessaire] ., Public domain.

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