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
There is a great difference between believing in something and believing in it again.
There are many who believe that 'Marriage is not a word - it is a sentence!' Whether you are indeed 'married' or if you are 'single', I am sure that funny quotes on weddings and marriages always tend to put a wicked smile to the face. It is often said that 'People who are married are often desperate to get out of it and people who are single can't wait to get in!'
Brevity: To say at once whatever is to be said.
The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books.
There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.
A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers
Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.
Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.
Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.
To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.
Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?
There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people who don't understand them; bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them; and now even written by people who don't understand them.
The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.