Quote of the day by Blaise Pascal: ‘All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone’ and the $100 billion industry built to keep you from doing it
Blaise Pascal was a 17th-century French mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and theologian whose work transformed mathematics and science In 2014, psychologists at the University of Virginia placed participants alone in a plain room for 15 minutes. They had no phones, pens, or reading materials. The only object in the room was a small device that delivered…
