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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
(1 Jul 1742 - 24 Feb 1799)
German physicist and writer.
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Science Quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (5)
A book is a mirror: when a monkey looks in, no apostle can look out.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Aphorisms (1775-1779) trans. Franz H. Mautner and Henry Hatfield. In Fred R. Shapiro and Joseph Epstein, The Yale Book of Quotations (2006), 459:2.
See also: | Book (42)
A donkey looks to me like a horse translated into Dutch.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Aphorisms (1775-1779) trans. Franz H. Mautner and Henry Hatfield. In Fred R. Shapiro and Joseph Epstein, The Yale Book of Quotations (2006), 459:4.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Aphorisms (1775-1779) trans. Franz H. Mautner and Henry Hatfield. In Fred R. Shapiro and Joseph Epstein, The Yale Book of Quotations (2006), 459:3.
See also: | Genius (58)
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Aphorisms (1775-1779) trans. Franz H. Mautner and Henry Hatfield. In Fred R. Shapiro and Joseph Epstein, The Yale Book of Quotations (2006), 459:1.
See also: | Opposite (8)
To see every day how people get the name ‘genius' just as the wood-lice in the
cellar the name ‘millipede'—not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14—this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Lichtenberg: Aphorisms & Letters (1969), 48, translated by Franz H. Mautner and Henry Hatfield.
See also: | Believe (6) | Count (6) | Feet (3) | Genius (58) | Insect (20) | Measurement (69) | Truth (252)
