帕斯卡不管怎麼說都是個天才。他身兼數學家、工程師和發明家。然而只有相當少數的讀者知道他也是一位具有深度的哲學與宗教思想家。他一輩子都在和懷疑搏鬥，這是最嚴格的一種懷疑－對世間萬物無不懷疑的徹底懷疑論。然而他沒有屈服。懷疑論者說，人無法掌握任何真理，最好的策略就是不下任何判斷。帕斯卡或許承認憑著人類的理智，我們不能確定什麼，但我們的直覺告訴我們，我們能窺見些許真理。人在追求真理的路途中能掌握的，就是這種直覺的本質。事實上，帕斯卡一輩子都在追求確定性，直到他終於服從在基督教的上帝中，他的心才平息下來。雖然帕斯卡距離我們已經有三百多年，他對懷疑與信仰的掙扎和反思仍然是現代人洞見的泉源，無論於有信仰者或沒有信仰者皆然，這也是本文討論的內容。

Pascal is a genius by all measures. He is at the same time a mathematician, a physicist, an engineer and an inventor. Yet known to relatively few readers, he is also a deep philosophical and religious thinker. He has been wrestling with doubting all his life, doubting in its most rigorous form-the all-out skepticism of doubting everything. Yet he does not succumb to it. The skeptic says that one cannot get hold of any truth and the best policy is to withdraw from all judgment. Pascal may concede that by virtue of reason we cannot have certainty, but our very intuition tells us we have a glimpse of something true. It is this intuitive nature that one can hold on to in his/her pursuit of truth. As a matter of fact, Pascal has been searching for certainty all his life, and his heart is not settled until he has finally found peace in submitting to the Christian God. Although Pascal lived more than 300 years before us, Pascal's struggles and reflections on the issue of doubting and believing remain a spring of insights for modem day people, believers and nonbelievers alike, as shall be discussed in this paper.