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A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Human pride is a strange thing; it cannot easily be suppressed, and if you stop up hole A will peep forth again in a twinkling from another hole B, and if this is closed it is ready to come out at hole C, and so on.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

This whole theory is good for nothing except disputing about.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Born: July 1, 1742

Died: February 24, 1799 (aged 56)

Bio: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 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.

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