Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook H (1784-1788)
“A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labour of the bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.”
Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
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Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922) scientist and inventor known for his work on the telephone
Statement to a reporter a few months before he died, as quoted at Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bellhtml/bellinvent.html
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director
"Speech to Danish working-class actors on the art of observation" [Rede an dänische Arbeiterschauspieler über die Kunst der Beobachtung] (1934), from The Messingkauf Poems, published in Versuche 14 (1955); trans. John Willett in Poems, 1913-1956, pp. 235-236
Poems, 1913-1956 (1976)
Heinz von Foerster (1911–2002) Austrian American scientist and cybernetician
observes it
Source: 1980s, Notes on an epistemology for living things, 1981, p.258
Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832) French economist and businessman
Source: A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832), Introduction, p. xix
“Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson book Quatrains
Quatrains, Nature
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Variant: The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
