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Interesting project title. Pascal being the French scientist and philosopher who came up with a good chunk of chemistry and was ultimately driven insane by tryi
by acyou 3y ago
Interesting project title. Pascal being the French scientist and philosopher who came up with a good chunk of chemistry and was ultimately driven insane by trying to reconcile too many incompatible beliefs in his mind, and rejecting too few (religion, orthodoxy, science, formal logic and reason).
- gjm11 3y agoI'd like to see some evidence that he was ultimately driven insane by trying to reconcile too many incompatible beliefs; I have never heard that before and am not convinced it's true. (He certainly seems to have been something of a religious fanatic in his later years, but that isn't the same thing.)
- JohnFen 3y agoPsychoanalyzing people is always error-prone. Even more so if done by amateurs. And even more than that if done to people we don't know. And even more than that if they're people from history.
- dexwiz 3y agoOr maybe heavy metal poisoning. Chemistry can be dangerous.