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Type: Physicist Quotes Category: American Physicist Quotes Date of Birth: July 9, 1911 Date of Death: April 13, 2008 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: John Archibald Wheeler Related Authors: Richard P. Feynman Enrico Fermi J. Robert Oppenheimer Brian Greene Edward Teller James Van Allen Austin O'Malley Chen Ning Yang Murray Gell-Mann |
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 If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day. John Archibald Wheeler In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it. John Archibald Wheeler In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality. John Archibald Wheeler 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 It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot. John Archibald Wheeler No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon. John Archibald Wheeler Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. John Archibald Wheeler 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 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 |
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