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American
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Physicist
July 9
, 1911 -
April 13
, 2008
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
Sea
Knowledge
Ignorance
Live
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
Opinion
Everything
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
John Archibald Wheeler
Nature
Time
Way
Everything
Once
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
John Archibald Wheeler
Time
Everything
Once
Happening
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
Loving
Understand
In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.
John Archibald Wheeler
Reality
Understand
More
Take
If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.
John Archibald Wheeler
Day
You
Strange
Something
No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.
John Archibald Wheeler
Real
Until
Phenomenon
Observed
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
Simple
Stupid
Will
In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.
John Archibald Wheeler
Explore
Find
Field
Any
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