About Georg Christoph 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...
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To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.