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
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.
I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
One has to do something new in order to see something new.
It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.
Ask yourself always: how can this be done better?
Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.
One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad.
Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.
The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny.