Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

However you make your living is where your talent lies.

There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.

I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.

I am an actress and I do have to make a living.

I love research and being educated. It's a great job being able to step into all kinds of professions and into other people's shoes.

If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.

I always like to make explicit the fact that before I went off not too long ago to fight in the trenches, I was a mathematician by profession. I don't like people to get the idea that I have to do this for a living. I mean, it isn't as though I had to do this, you know, I could be making, oh, three thousand dollars a year just teaching.

Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.

Scholars dream of finding small facts pregnant with great progeny.

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

A scholar knows no boredom.

Unfitness for war is unfitness for existence.

It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.

The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

Always I'm working on some of book. That's the way I make a living.

Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much time, without my having reached my original goal. Again and again I was enticed by the frequently interesting prospects from one direction to the other, sometimes even by will-o'-the-wisps, as is not rare in mathematic speculations.

Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go.

Acting is what I'm living and breathing on a day-to-day basis.

When people ask me what I do for a living, I always say, "I get rejected for a living." And that's true.

Obviously music is my first job.