Everyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original ideas closer together.Georg Lichtenberg
“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.”
“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.”
— GEORG LICHTENBERG
Physicist and writer · 1742 – 1799
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was a German physicist, satirist and Anglophile who became the first German professor of experimental physics at Göttingen. He is best remembered for his posthumous aphorisms from his notebooks (the Sudelbücher), noted for their wit and sharp observation of human nature.
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