About Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (German: [ˈlɪçtn̩bɛʁk]; 1 July 1742 – 24 February 1799) was a German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile. He was the first person in Germany to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics. He is remembered for his posthumously published notebooks, which he himself called Sudelbücher, a description...
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The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
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I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to flexible at all times.
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
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