The best Quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The best Quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1 July 1742 – 24 February 1799) was a German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

(1742-1799)

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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

Illness & Sickness

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

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The Dark Ages were a tragedy for human progress that put back the ollout of 5G by hundreds of years.

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Well, there are plenty worse places to be than the Old West. I could've ended up in the Dark Ages. They probably would have burned me at the stake as a heretic or something.

Doc Brown in Back to the Future

I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.

Tracy Chevalier

Illness & Sickness Reading

When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.

Trisha Yearwood

Illness & Sickness Mother

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

Edvard Munch

Fear Illness & Sickness Motivation

Men must be free to do what they believe. It is not our right to punish one for thinking what they do, no matter how much we disagree.

Assassin's Creed

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Human Rights Freedom Opinions

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

Josh Billings

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Foolishness Opinions

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

William Butler Yeats

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Foolishness Opinions Racism Conspiracy Theories

All of the world's darkness isn't enough to extinguish one candle's light.

Roman Herzog (as President of Germany) - Dezember 1998

Even the smallest candle pierces the darkness like the sharpest blade.

Better light a candle than curse the darkness.

Things never happen the same way twice.

C.S. Lewis in The Chronicles of Narnia

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Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different...

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Every Star that you see in the Sky might be a sun to someone.

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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist knows it.

Robert Oppenheimer

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Optimism Pessimism

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

Robert Oppenheimer

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Nuclear Weapons

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Stephen Hawking

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Knowledge Intelligence

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Stephen Hawking

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Intelligence Silence

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

Experience Failures & Mistakes

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

Marie Curie

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Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Marie Curie

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Life Motivation

Ideas can only be useful when they come to life in many minds.

Alexander von Humboldt

Nature has to be felt.

Alexander von Humboldt

Nature & Environment

I am not the least afraid to die.

Charles Darwin - last words - April 19th 1882

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Death Last Words

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Charles Darwin

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Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science - for to fill your heart with love is enough!

Richard Feynman

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

Richard Feynman

Religion Science Doubt

Cogito, ergo sum. I think; therefore I am.

René Descartes

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Thinking Latin Phrases

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

René Descartes

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

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Reason & Sanity Imagination

I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.

Albert Einstein

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Foolishness Technology Generations

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

John Wheeler

Knowledge Science

The best way to learn something is to have to teach it.

John Wheeler

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

Erwin Schrödinger

Quantum Mechanics

The present is the only thing that has no end.

Erwin Schrödinger

The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.

Werner Heisenberg

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Science Atheism

If we made atomic bombs, we would bring about a terrible change in the world. Who knows what would happen from this?

Werner Heisenberg

Nuclear Weapons

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

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