Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph. The Reflections of Lichtenberg. Translated by Norman Alliston, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1908, p. 136.
The Supreme Court had ruled school prayer illegal. Many religious people were distressed and turned to the President:
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 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 "scrapbooks", and for his discovery of tree-like electrical discharge patterns now called Lichtenberg figures.