Georg C. Lichtenberg
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenbergwas a German scientist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany. Today, he is remembered for his posthumously published notebooks, which he himself called Sudelbücher, a description modelled on the English bookkeeping term "scrapbooks", and for his discovery of the strange tree-like electrical discharge patterns now called Lichtenberg figures...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth1 July 1742
CountryGermany
One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory; and when I arrived I was tired.
If nature be regarded as the teacher and we poor human beings as her pupils, the human race presents a very curious picture. We all sit together at a lecture and possess the necessary principles for understanding it, yet we always pay more attention to the chatter of our fellow students than to the lecturer's discourse. Or, if our neighbor copies something down, we sneak it from him, stealing what he himself may have heard imperfectly, and add it to our own errors of spelling and opinion.
Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.
How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was!
The most entertaining surface on earth is the human face.
A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!
To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them.
It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.
I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.
Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.