Microscopes should be invented for every kind of investigation and, where that is impossible, experiments should be conducted on a large scale. This is the only direct road to new discovery.


In: J.P Stern, Lichtenberg: A Doctrine of Scattered Occasions, Further Excerpts from Lichtenberg's Notebooks (p. 294)

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes

Microscopes should be invented for every kind of investigation and, where that is impossible, experiments should be conducted on a large scale. This...

Microscopes should be invented for every kind of investigation and, where that is impossible, experiments should be conducted on a large scale. This...

Microscopes should be invented for every kind of investigation and, where that is impossible, experiments should be conducted on a large scale. This...

Microscopes should be invented for every kind of investigation and, where that is impossible, experiments should be conducted on a large scale. This...