Modern cosmology has revealed a universe vastly larger than Pascal could have conceived in 1660. Science not only supports but amplifies their famous declarations. Pascal says we are small Whitman says we are large.
In his Pensees (“Thoughts”), Blaise Pascal wrote: “By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom.” In Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman wrote: “I contain multitudes.” On the surface, Pascal and Whitman seem to be saying very different things.
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