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
It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves.
I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.
The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression.
The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny.
Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
Human pride is a strange thing; it cannot easily be suppressed, and if you stop up hole A will peep forth again in a twinkling from another hole B, and if this is closed it is ready to come out at hole C, and so on.
It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.
Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.
How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers?
Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.
A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.