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
The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
In each of us there is a little of all of us.
How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.
The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.
Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.
Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?
First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.
The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.
With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.