There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
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| Birth: | 1st July, 1742 |
| Death: | 24th February, 1799 |
| Nationality: | German |
| Profession: | Satirist, Scientist |
About
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. Today, he is remembered for his posthumously published notebooks, which he himself called Sudelbücher, a description modeled on the English bookkeeping term "scrapbooks", and for his discovery of the strange tree-like patterns now called Lichtenberg figures.
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