49 Quotes by John Archibald Wheeler

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

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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