6 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Progress

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg quotes on progress

85. Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoitre the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

110. There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

121. As nations improve, so do their gods.

129. I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

131. If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.

145. Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.