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Georg C. Lichtenberg

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", and for his discovery of tree-like electrical discharge patterns now called Lichtenberg figures.

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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.

Change, Inspirational, Motivational, Say, Things

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

Cases, Everywhere, Greater, Human, Humans, Library

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.

Game, Games, Happens, Imagination, Philosophy, Wanderings

The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex; for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.

Friend, Girl, Reveals, Secrets, Sex, Women

They do not think, therefore they are not.

Science, Thinking, Think

Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?

Food, Knows, Pump, War, Wine

You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.

Beautiful, Believe, Know, Run, Running

A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.

Appears, Donkey, Dutch, Horse, Translated

In each of us there is a little of all of us.

Littles

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

Events, Mistake, Planned, Produced, Undertaking, World

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

Bodies, Body, Heads, Ideas, Nobility, Obscene

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

Growing, Growing Old, Growing Up, Nothing, Quickly

If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.

Angel, Believe, Philosophy, Statements, Tell

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

Library, Narrow, Soul, Wide

Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.

Error, Errors, Executioner, Exercise, Philosophy

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

Mind, Philosopher, Philosophy, Right

If brandy was made out of sparrows there would soon be no sparrows.

Brandy, Made, Sparrows

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

Done, Happiness, Thinking, Worry, Worst

The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.

Devil, Grammar, Latin, Speaks Out, Statutes

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.

Applause, Appreciation, Mean, Power, Thereafter, Usually

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