Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another,… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve. — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
“Never make a calculation until you know the answer. Make an estimate before every calculation, try a simple physical argument (symmetry! invariance! conservation!) before… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
Time, among all concepts in the world of physics, puts up the greatest resistance to being dethroned from ideal continuum to the world of… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
The laws of physics that we regard as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything but. — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
There are many modes of thinking about the world around us and our place in it. I like to consider all the angles from… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day. — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality. — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
I like to say, when asked why I pursue science, that it is to satisfy my curiosity, that I am by nature a searcher… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
'Participant' is the incontrovertible new concept given by quantum mechanics. It strikes down the 'observer' of classical theory, the man who stands safely behind… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
We will first understand how simple the universe is when we recognize how strange it is. — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there to the… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
Of all heroes , Spinoza was Einstein 's greatest. No one expressed more strongly then he a belief in the harmony , the beauty… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is aparticipatory universe. — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
