After his return to Catholicism, Blaise Pascal proposed a famous wager in his masterwork Pensées (Thoughts), taking a mere paragraph to do it. Since the existence of God cannot be proven, Pascal took ...

L’homme n’est qu’un roseau, le plus faible de la nature, mais c’est un roseau pensant. [Man is a reed, the feeblest thing in nature. But a reed that can think.] –Pascal Fourteen years ago, I commented ...

Blaise Pascal really was a gambler—at least when he was young. His highly devout parents, according to Antoine Compagnon in his short book “A Summer With Pascal,” were a bit worried when their ...

The fallout of climate change would be a boost to Berkshire Hathaway anyway.