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
Georg C. Lichtenberg quotes about
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were.
The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.
What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.
Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls.
There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
Some people read only because they are too lazy to think.
Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.
The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.
Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence to a stupid person.
I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.
Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.
Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God.