In a second-hand bookstore I discovered a Hungarian-language edition of Pascal’s Pensées from 1943, which is a translation of François Mauriac’ selection and introduction. Now I read Pascal again with delight, and I also find it very interesting what kind of thoughts Mauriac selected from Pascal’s legacy and what he wrote about Pascal.

"On a fraction of a study of vacuum" came first in the selection. It got me thinking what Pascal wrote about the contemporary attitude of physics and religious doctrines:

"... Just it is regrettable that there are blind people who attested with prestige of some authors in physics, instead of logical reasoning and experiments; at the same time we are horrified that others are seeking the truth with logical argument in theology, rather than they commit themselves to the Holy Scripture and the Fathers reputation."

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