This philosopher once claimed that "the whole aspect of the world would have been altered" had Cleopatra's nose been shorter.
This philosopher once claimed that "the whole aspect of the world would have been altered" had Cleopatra's nose been shorter. He used the name Louis de Montalte in writing a set of eighteen epistles defending Antoine Arnauld and attacking the Jesuits, the Provincial Letters, in which he also defended Jansenism. This man argued that it is favorable to accept God because, should he exist, the returns would be infinite in an argument known as his Wager. For 10 points, name this French philosopher and author of the Pensees who also names a triangle of binomial coefficients.
This philosopher once claimed that "the whole aspect of the world would have been altered" had Cleopatra's nose been shorter.
Blaise Pascal