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
He who understands the wise is wise already.
Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.
Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.
To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.
Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?
There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people who don't understand them; bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them; and now even written by people who don't understand them.
The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
Too much is unwholesome.
Delicacy in woman is strength.
As nations improve, so do their gods.
It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household.
It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.