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He was a German scientist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany.<\/p>\n
Today, he is remembered for his posthumously published notebooks, which he himself called Sudelb\u00fccher, a description modeled on the English bookkeeping term “waste books”, and for his discovery of the strange tree-like patterns now called Lichtenberg figures. He is one of the first scientists to introduce experiments with apparatus in their lectures, Lichtenberg was a most popular and respected figure in the European intellectual circles of his time.<\/p>\n
He maintained good relations with most of the great figures of that era, including Goethe and Kant.
\n(1742 – 1799)<\/p>\n
– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes –<\/strong><\/p>\n With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.<\/strong> Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.<\/strong> 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.<\/strong> What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer’s own weaknesses reflected back from others.<\/strong> Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.<\/strong> I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.<\/strong> Virtue by premeditation isn’t worth much.<\/strong> 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.<\/strong> Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.<\/strong> Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.<\/strong> Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.<\/strong> If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.<\/strong> We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.<\/strong> Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.<\/strong> 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.<\/strong> To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.<\/strong> God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.<\/strong> I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.<\/strong> To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.<\/strong> He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage – he won’t encounter many rivals.<\/strong> He was 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 Sudelb\u00fccher, a description modeled on the English bookkeeping term “waste books”, and for his discovery of the strange tree-like patterns now called Lichtenberg figures. He is one of the first scientists to introduce experiments with apparatus in their lectures, Lichtenberg was a most popular and respected figure in the European intellectual circles of his time. He maintained good relations with most <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-authors","category-news","tag-georg-christoph-lichtenberg-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenproverbs.com\/testsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenproverbs.com\/testsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenproverbs.com\/testsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenproverbs.com\/testsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenproverbs.com\/testsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenproverbs.com\/testsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1567,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenproverbs.com\/testsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/1567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenproverbs.com\/testsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenproverbs.com\/testsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenproverbs.com\/testsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenproverbs.com\/testsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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