Those of you reviewing math theories are likely to encounter the name Blaise Pascal. It is a name which often appears in the devotional book which I read each morning. Pascal did his work in the 17th Century. Among his writings were these words:
"The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.
"It is the heart which experiences God... This then is faith, God felt by the hear, not by reason...
"Faith is the gift of God; do not believe that we said it was a gift of reasoning. Other religions do not say this of their faith. They only give reasoning in order to arrive at it, and yet it does not bring them to it...
"The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
"We know truth not only by reason, but also by the heart and it is in this last way that we know first principles, such as space, time, motion, number, as sure as any of those we get from reasoning. And reason must trust these intuitions of the heart.... And it is as useless and absurd for reason to demand from the heart proofs of her first principles, before admitting them, as it could be for the heart to demand from reason an intuition of all demonstrated principles before accepting them. This inability out, then, to serve only to humble reason, which would judge all."
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