Quotes by John Archibald Wheeler - Page 1

One can only learn by teaching.
John Archibald Wheeler / Physicist
Physics
Teaching
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Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
John Archibald Wheeler / Physicist
Funny
Time
Happenings
Once
Happening
Prevents
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In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.
John Archibald Wheeler / Physicist
Science
Exploration
Fields
Explore
Field
Strangest
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It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot.
John Archibald Wheeler / Physicist
Degrees
Events
Hot
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Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
John Archibald Wheeler / Physicist
Nature
Time
Way
Once
Happening
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No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.
John Archibald Wheeler / Physicist
Science
Phenomenon
Real
Observed
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The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation.
John Archibald Wheeler / Physicist
Description
Left
Observation
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This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral.
John Archibald Wheeler / Physicist
Religion
Science
Museums
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Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.
John Archibald Wheeler / Physicist
Curves
Matter
Moving
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The job of a theoretical physicist is to make mistakes as fast as possible .
John Archibald Wheeler / Physicist
Jobs
Mistake
Physicist
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The laws of physics that we regard as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything but.
John Archibald Wheeler / Physicist
Law
Physics
Sacred
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If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.
John Archibald Wheeler / Physicist
Found
Grace
Strange
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Surely where there's smoke there's fire? No, where there's so much smoke there's smoke.
John Archibald Wheeler / Physicist
Fire
Smoke
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We will first understand how simple the universe is when we recognize how strange it is.
John Archibald Wheeler / Physicist
Firsts
Simple
Strange
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The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe.
John Archibald Wheeler / Physicist
Birth
Consciousness
Giving
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We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.
John Archibald Wheeler / Physicist
Order
Real
Students
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We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is aparticipatory universe.
John Archibald Wheeler / Physicist
Observers
Strange
Universe
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In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.
John Archibald Wheeler / Physicist
Science
Dimensions
Order
Reality
Account
Broader
Fully
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Now is the time for everyone who believes in the rule of reason to speak up against pathological science and its purveyors.
John Archibald Wheeler / Physicist
Believe
Reason
Speak
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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 / Physicist
Journey
Knowledge
Learning
Ocean
Grows
Ignorance
Sea
Shore
Live
Does
Island
Surrounded
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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
John Archibald Wheeler / Physicist
India
Philosophy
Thinking
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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 / Physicist
Appreciate
Hate
Loving You
Study
Theory
Love Hate Your
To Love
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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.
John Archibald Wheeler / Physicist
Belief
Hero
Spinoza
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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 we might gain perspective on our amazing universe and the nature of existence.
John Archibald Wheeler / Physicist
Perspective
Thinking
World
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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 / Physicist
Beautiful
Century
Millennium
Simple
Stupid
Behind
Idea
Could
Decade
Each
Grasp
Otherwise
Surely
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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 to understand. If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.
John Archibald Wheeler / Physicist
Curiosity
Strange
Trying
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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 are information-theoretic in origin and that this is a participatory universe.
John Archibald Wheeler / Physicist
Ideas
Information
World
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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 / Physicist
Beautiful
Compelling
Ideas
Opinion
Simple
Based
Discovered
Finally
Simple Idea
Yes
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No space, no time, no gravity, no electromagnetism, no particles. Nothing. We are back where Plato, Aristotle and Parmenides struggled with the great questions: How Come the Universe, How Come Us, How Come Anything? But happily also we have around the answer to these questions. That's us.
John Archibald Wheeler / Physicist
Space
Answers
Plato
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'Participant' is the incontrovertible new concept given by quantum mechanics. It strikes down the 'observer' of classical theory, the man who stands safely behind the thick glass wall and watches what goes on without taking part. It can't be done, quantum mechanics says it...May the universe in some sense be 'brought into being' by the participation of those who participate?
John Archibald Wheeler / Physicist
Men
Glasses
Wall
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Every heat engineer knows he can design his heat engine reliably and accurately on the foundation of the second law [of thermodynamics]. Run alongside one of the molecules, however, and ask it what it thinks of the second law. It will laugh at us. It never heard of the second law. It does what it wants. All the same, a collection of billions upon billions of such molecules obeys the second law with all the accuracy one could want
John Archibald Wheeler / Physicist
Running
Law
Thinking
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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 discrete, of information, of bits.... Of all obstacles to a thoroughly penetrating account of existence, none looms up more dismayingly than 'time.' Explain time? Not without explaining existence. Explain existence? Not without explaining time. To uncover the deep and hidden connection between time and existence ... is a task for the future.
John Archibald Wheeler / Physicist
Time
Connections
Tasks
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