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
Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.
He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.
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.
One has to do something new in order to see something new.
Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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.
Delicacy in woman is strength.
As nations improve, so do their gods.
Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.