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Say Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg
- I have often noticed that when people come to understand a mathematical proposition in some other way than that of the ordinary demonstration, they promptly…
- People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes an…
- Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking.
- We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the…
- People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to…
- As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in…
- I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
- We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
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