Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Germany, Physicist
July 1, 1742 – February, 24, 1799.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1 July 1742 – 24 February 1799) was a German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany. He is remembered for his posthumously published notebooks, which he himself called Sudelbücher, a description modelled on the English bookkeeping term "scrapbooks",[2] and for his discovery of tree-like electrical discharge patterns now called Lichtenberg figures.

Also known as Satirist

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
- Judge

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
- People
- Done