- Are
you interested in astronomy?
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Not particularly
She
smiled.
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Le silence éternel de ces espaces infinis m´affraie?
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Discomforts rather than terrifies. It´s probably my vanity. I can´t
interest myself in anything which I not only don´t understand but
know that I have no prospect of ever understanding.
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That for me is the atraction. It´s a form of escapism, even of
voyeurism, I suppose-this absortion in an impersonal universe which I
canñt do anything to influence or control and, better still, which
no one expects me to. It´s an abtidaction of responsibility. It
restores personal problems to their proper proportion
I
think the both arguments are quite reasonable. Pascal is the author
of the quote. Pascal´s brother in law will appear here in the future
because he had an important tole in the progress of Science in the
Pyu de Dôme
