This post is a translation of an article I wrote in Greek back in 2010
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a French mathematician and physicist and made great progress in the formulation of the laws of probability. At the same time he was also part of the dispute between Jansenites and Jesuits and for this reason he wrote his famous book “Thoughts” (Pensées) which contains the now infamous “Pascal’s Wager”
Typically the Wager is quoted as such: “If you bet on God’s existence and he indeed exists, you win everything; otherwise yoy lose nothing”. Needless to say that Pascal wrote a lot more stuff than a single sentence on the matter. You can read it below and I will make my comments afterwards (the numbers in square brackets are marked sentences to be used later for commenting). You can read the entire book at Project Guttenberg.