John Archibald Wheeler Quotes

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

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

Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.

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

The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe.

We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.

We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is aparticipatory universe.

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.

No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.

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 of our times

We will first understand how simple the universe is when we recognize how strange it is.

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

The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation.

The job of a theoretical physicist is to make mistakes as fast as possible .

Now is the time for everyone who believes in the rule of reason to speak up against pathological science and its purveyors.

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

Of all heroes , Spinoza was Einstein 's greatest. No one expressed more strongly then he a belief in the harmony , the beauty , and most of all the ultimate comprehensibility of nature.

One can only learn by teaching.

Surely where there's smoke there's fire? No, where there's so much smoke there's smoke.

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

The laws of physics that we regard as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything but.

This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral.

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.