Christian Nestell Bovee vs. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Christian Nestell Bovee
1820 – 1904
Christian Nestell Bovee was an epigrammatic New York City writer.
"At all events, the next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit."
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
1786 – 1845
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was a German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile. He was the first person in Germany to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics. 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 the tree-like electrical discharge patterns now called Lichtenberg figures.
"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."
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