John Archibald Wheeler Quotes

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• If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.
• The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe.
• We will first understand how simple the universe is when we recognize how strange it is.
• There are many modes of thinking about the world around us and our place in it. I like to consider all the angles from which…
• To hate is to study, to study is to understand, to understand is to appreciate, to appreciate is to love. So maybe I'll end up…
• Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.
• It from Bit symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom an immaterial source and explanation... that all things physical…
• We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.
• I like to say, when asked why I pursue science, that it is to satisfy my curiosity, that I am by nature a searcher trying…
• One can only learn by teaching.
• I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there to the philosophy…
• In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.
• We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
• Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium…
• Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
• In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.
• No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.
• 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…
• It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot.
• Time, among all concepts in the world of physics, puts up the greatest resistance to being dethroned from ideal continuum to the world of the…

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