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
The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.
It thunders, howls, roars, hisses, whistles, blusters, hums, growls, rumbles, squeaks, groans, sings, crackles, cracks, rattles, flickers, clicks, snarls, tumbles, whimpers, whines, rustles, murmurs, crashes, clucks, to gurgle, tinkles, blows, snores, claps, to lisp, to cough, it boils, to scream, to weep, to sob, to croak, to stutter, to lisp, to coo, to breathe, to clash, to bleat, to neigh, to grumble, to scrape, to bubble. These words, and others like them, which express sounds are more than mere symbols: they are a kind of hieroglyphics for the ear.
Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.