Quotes
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.
A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
Truly it may be said that the outside of a mountain is good for the inside of a man.
We recommend that no one eat more than two tons of turkey - that's what it would take to poison someone.
The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the world.
It's almost two societies, the living and the dead, and you live with them both.
We prefer the loss of the coffee to the loss of the country.
John A. 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 A. 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 A. Wheeler
Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.
John A. Wheeler
Now is the time for everyone who believes in the rule of reason to speak up against pathological science and its purveyors.
John A. Wheeler