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I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate on such subjects disgusted me with them. when i began to study man, i saw that these abstract sciences are not suited to him, and that in diving into them, i wandered farther from my real object than those who knew them not, and i forgave them for not having attended to these things. i expected then, however, that i should find some companions in the study of man, since it was so specifically a duty. i was in error. there are fewer students of man than of geometry.

-Blaise Pascal

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I Have Spent Much Time In The

Blaise Pascal

I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate on such subjects disgusted me with them. when i began to study man, i saw that these abstract sciences are not suited to him, and that in diving into them, i wandered farther from my real object than those who knew them not, and i forgave them for not having attended to these things. i expected then, however, that i should find some companions in the study of man, since it was so specifically a duty. i was in error. there are fewer students of man than of geometry.

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