Georg Christoph Lichtenberg on Science
Browse 9 quotations attributed to Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, catalogued under Science, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, entry #105270: "There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly."
Attributed to Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, entry #154340: "A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves."
9 Quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg on Science
"There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly."
"A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves."
"Georg Christoph Lichtenberg : Experimental Physics from the Spirit of Aphorism"
"The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery."
"Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre."
"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 in it and are secretly aware of this defect."
"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 best learn how small he is."
"If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever.... Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later."
"Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them."