Find this full quote for me and I'll give you 50$

[Algernon]

Its a Blaise Pascal quote, its relatively long.

He says something about being born to the particular time and place despite the infinite


inb4 someone thinks they're clever

[shafnutz05]

"He who sees himself thus will be frightened by himself, and, perceiving himself sustained... between these two abysses of infinity and nothing, will tremble... and will be more disposed to contemplate these marvels in silence than to explore them with presumption. For in the end, what is man in nature? A nothing in respect to the infinite, everything in respect to the nothing, a halfway between nothing and all. Infinitely far from comprehending the extremes, both the end and the beginning or principle of things are invincibly hidden in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing whence he has been drawn, and the infinite in which he is engulfed."

[eddy]

Dammit

[Algernon]

That's actually not it. He specifically mentions his atoms in the one im ooking for

Believe me, I wish it was that one

[Willie Kool]

In the spirit of "Give a man a fish..." I have an offer for you. I'll teach you to google for $200.

[Kaiser]

I'll teach you to ask WK how to google for $350. Capitalism.

[mikey]

"When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the small space which I fill, or even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified, and wonder that I am here rather than there, for there is no reason why here rather than there, or now rather than then. Who has set me here? By whose order and design have this place and time been destined for me?"



"But to offer him another astonishing prodigy, let him behold the tiniest things he knows of. Let a mite show him in the smallness of its body parts incomparably smaller, legs with joints, veins in the legs, blood in the veins, humours in the blood, drops in the humours, vapors in the drops, which, dividing to the smallest things, he wears out his imaginative power, and let the last object which he arrives at become now the subject of our discourse; he might think that this perhaps is the smallest thing in the universe. I wish now to make him see therein a new abyss. I want to paint for him not only the visible universe, but all the imaginable immensity of nature within the confines of an atom. Let him see an infinity of universes, in which each has its own firmament, planets, earth, in the same proportion as the visible world; within this earth, there are animals and finally, mites, in which he'll find again the same things as he found in the mite he started with; and finding again the same things without end, let him lose himself in these wonders, as shocking in their smallness as others are in their immensity; for who will not admire our body, which before was imperceptible within the universe, imperceptible itself within the bosom of nature, and which is now a colossus, a world, or rather a whole, in comparison to the nothing, the smallness, we can't arrive at?"

[mikey]

"He thinks, perhaps, that this is the minutest atom of nature, but I will open to him, within it, a new and fathomless abyss. I can yet exhibit to him, not only the visible universe, but even all that he is capable of conceiving of the immensity of nature, embosomed in this imperceptible atom. Let him see there an infinity of worlds, each of which has its firmament, its planets, its earth, bearing the same proportion to the other parts as in the visible world..."

"The whole visible world is only an imperceptible atom in the ample bosom of nature. No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all imaginable space; we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things. It is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere. In short it is the greatest sensible mark of the almighty power of God, that imagination loses itself in that thought."

[willeyeam]

I'll teach you to ask WK how to google for $350. Capitalism.

I'll tach him how to ask WK for 175. Capitalize that

[dodint]

Must have been about quarks.

[Algernon]

In the spirit of "Give a man a fish..." I have an offer for you. I'll teach you to google for $200.

I've been trying to rediscover it for over 2 years lol. Been googling a lot

[Algernon]

"He thinks, perhaps, that this is the minutest atom of nature, but I will open to him, within it, a new and fathomless abyss. I can yet exhibit to him, not only the visible universe, but even all that he is capable of conceiving of the immensity of nature, embosomed in this imperceptible atom. Let him see there an infinity of worlds, each of which has its firmament, its planets, its earth, bearing the same proportion to the other parts as in the visible world..."

"The whole visible world is only an imperceptible atom in the ample bosom of nature. No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all imaginable space; we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things. It is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere. In short it is the greatest sensible mark of the almighty power of God, that imagination loses itself in that thought."

Omg I owe you 50$

[mikey]

You can make the check payable to "cash", that's what my friends call me...


Actually, this is gonna be fun...because I don't want the money personally...but I do want to open it up a select group of people here to decide what you will donate that money to...in your name...

I have randomly selected the following members: me, @dodint, @Shyster, @NailedPenguin, @nobody, @shafnutz05 and @Guinness...

I'm thinking $25 to Trump's 2020 re-election campaign and $25 to McDonald's...not the Ronald McDonald House, but just McDonald's...just a little donation that says both "keep up the good work" and "I love your non-dirt food"...

[Pavel Bure]

I once got Pens tickets for buying a guy on LGP a pizza when he was drunk.

[willeyeam]

Doc Emerick right?

[obhave]

I once got Pens tickets for buying a guy on LGP a pizza when he was drunk.

I remember that thread, I still can't believe it happened

[Shyster]

McDonald's? McDonald's sells salads. Have him cut a check to Krispy Kreme.

[Algernon]

Totally worth it

[tifosi77]

McDonald's? McDonald's sells salads. Have him cut a check to Krispy Kreme.

There was a great radio commercial a couple years ago extolling the awesomeness of bacon. It had a line where the VO guy was like, "It's so versatile it can even be used in salad. Salad!"

[Pavel Bure]

Doc Emerick right?

I once got Pens tickets for buying a guy on LGP a pizza when he was drunk.

I remember that thread, I still can't believe it happened

You guys are correct. I still can't believe it myself. That guy actually bought 2 extra tickets beyond his season tickets. It was an awesome experience.

[NailedPenguin]

You can make the check payable to "cash", that's what my friends call me...


Actually, this is gonna be fun...because I don't want the money personally...but I do want to open it up a select group of people here to decide what you will donate that money to...in your name...

I have randomly selected the following members: me, @dodint, @Shyster, @NailedPenguin, @nobody, @shafnutz05 and @Guinness...

I'm thinking $25 to Trump's 2020 re-election campaign and $25 to McDonald's...not the Ronald McDonald House, but just McDonald's...just a little donation that says both "keep up the good work" and "I love your non-dirt food"...

$50 to help fund the wall.

[robbiestoupe]

Love me some Blaise Pascal. I keep a notepad of quotes I come across, and quite a few are his.

Almost named my first born Pascal. Duper, of course, was an influence, as is the fact I'm a mechanical engineer working in pneumatics, so I see the name everywhere.

[meow]

Donate it to The Human Fund

Money for People

[Silentom]

Donate it to @Kicksave with the stipulation that avatars be allowed.

[dodint]

I'd settle for the time being correct so we can actually use it in GDTs.