If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.
Georg C. LichtenbergWe have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Georg C. LichtenbergImagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls.
Georg C. LichtenbergThe great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.
Georg C. Lichtenberg