Quotes by John Archibald Wheeler

John Archibald Wheeler

‘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?

Glasses

Men

Wall

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?

Beautiful

Simple

Stupid

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

Law

Running

Thinking

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.

Curiosity

Strange

Trying

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

India

Philosophy

Thinking

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

Found

Grace

Strange

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

Exploration

Fields

Science

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

Order

Reality

Science

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.

Ideas

Information

World

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.

Beautiful

Ideas

Simple

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Appreciate

Beautiful

Belief

Believe

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Consciousness

Curiosity

Curves

Degrees

Description

Events

Exploration

Fields

Fire

Firsts

Found

Funny

Giving

Glasses

Grace

Happenings

Hate

Hero

Hot

Ideas

Ignorance

India

Information

Jobs

Law

Learning

Left

Loving You

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Men

Mistake

Moving

Museums

Observation

Observers

Ocean

Order

Perspective

Phenomenon

Philosophy

Physicist

Physics

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Quotes by John Archibald Wheeler

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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