There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
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Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
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Birth: | 1st July, 1742 |
Death: | 24th February, 1799 |
Nationality: | German |
Profession: | Satirist, Scientist |
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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