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Science Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg
- The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress…
- Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can…
- Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing.
- There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
- What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.
- Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls.
- 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…
- They do not think, therefore they are not.
- We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before…
- How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers?
- One has to do something new in order to see something new.
- It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about…
- Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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