Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quote

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

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About 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. He is remembered for his posthumously published notebooks, which he himself called Sudelbücher, a description modelled on the English bookkeeping term "waste books" or "scrapbooks", and for his discovery of tree-like electrical discharge patterns now called Lichtenberg figures.