John Archibald Wheeler Quotes

"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
(Related: Love, End, Hate, Study, Theory)

"No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon."
- 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
(Related: Idea, Opinion, Will)

"In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality."
- John Archibald Wheeler
(Related: Order, Reality)

"In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it."
- 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
(Related: Idea, Will)

"If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day."
- John Archibald Wheeler
(Related: Day)