Georg Christoph Lichtenberg : Experimental Physics from the Spirit of Aphorism…

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People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws. - View Quote Details on People often become scholars for the same reason they become…
One of the main conveniences of marriage is that if you can’t stand a visitor, you can pass him along to your wife. - View Quote Details on One of the main conveniences of marriage is that if…
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. - View Quote Details on Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the…
The late M. who had a Catholic maid, once told me entirely bona fide: This person is a Catholic, it is true, but she is an honest, good soul. Recently she committed a perjury on my behalf. - View Quote Details on The late M. who had a Catholic maid, once told…
A great speech is easy to learn by heart and a great poem even easier. How hard it would be to memorize as many words linked together senselessly, or a speech in a foreign tongue! Sense and understanding thus come to the aid of memory. Sense is order and order is in the last resort conformity with our nature. When we speak rationally we are only speaking in accordance with the nature of our being. That is why we devise genera and species in the case of plants and animals. The hypotheses we make belong here too: we are obliged to have them because otherwise we would unable to retain things… The question is, however, whether everything is legible to us. Certainly experiment and reflection enable us to introduce a significance into what is not legible, either to us or at all: thus we see faces or landscapes in the sand, though they are certainly not there. The introducion of symmetries belongs here too, silhouettes in inkblots, etc. Likewise the gradation we establish in the order of creatures: all this is not in the things but in us. In general we cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing. - View Quote Details on A great speech is easy to learn by heart and…
He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals. - View Quote Details on He who is enamored of himself will at least have…
I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up. - View Quote Details on I have remarked very clearly that I am often of…
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn’t have the courage to ask the blessing of heaven. - View Quote Details on Never undertake anything for which you wouldn’t have the courage…
Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming. - View Quote Details on Before one blames, one should always find out whether one…
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments. - View Quote Details on A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful…