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
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.
Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.
How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers?
One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.
If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.
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.
The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex; for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.
I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves.