John Archibald Wheeler Quotes

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In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.
John Archibald Wheeler

Find, Explore, Strangest

If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.
John Archibald Wheeler

Strange, Found, Hasn

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
John Archibald Wheeler

Knowledge, Live, Ignorance

In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.
John Archibald Wheeler

Reality, Understand, Order

No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.
John Archibald Wheeler

Real, Until, Phenomenon

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 loving your theory.
John Archibald Wheeler

Love, Hate, End

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 could we have been so stupid?
John Archibald Wheeler

Beautiful, Stupid, Simple

It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot.
John Archibald Wheeler

Hot, Thousand, Event

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, yes, how could it have been any different.
John Archibald Wheeler

Beautiful, Simple, Different

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: July 9, 1911

Died: April 13, 2008

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