Quotes by John Archibald Wheeler

About John Archibald Wheeler:

John Archibald Wheeler is also known for popularizing the term "black hole", for coining the terms "neutron moderator", "quantum foam", "wormhole", and "it from bit", and for hypothesizing the "one-electron universe".
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Physicists love this number not just because it is dimensionless, but also because it is a combination of three fundamental constants of nature. Why do these constants come together to make the particular number 1/137.036 and not some other number?

John Archibald Wheeler

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

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

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

John Archibald Wheeler

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

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

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

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

John Archibald Wheeler

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

John Archibald Wheeler

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

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

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

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

John Archibald Wheeler

Author Bio

  • NameJohn Archibald Wheeler
  • DescriptionAmerican physicist
  • BornJuly 9, 1911
  • DiedApril 13, 2008
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPhysicist; Author
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; Oersted Medal; Niels Bohr International Gold Medal