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Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
Astronomer
French Moralist
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Physicist
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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They do not think, therefore they are not.
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