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
Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.
Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.
God, who winds up our sundials ...
After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying.
What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.
Reading means borrowing.
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.