Quotes
No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.
John A. Wheeler
In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.
John A. Wheeler
If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.
John A. 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 A. Wheeler
All things physical are information - theoretic in origin and this is a participatory universe... Observer participancy gives rise to information; and information gives rise to physics.
Good writing is clear thinking made visible.
M. Charles Wheeler
Nowadays some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with a remote control.
They are pure, unduplicatable Chicago. They help explain why - in Chicago - it is unwise to take your eyes off any asset smaller than a locomotive.
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
The same system that produced a bewildering succession of new-model, style-obsolescent autos and refrigerators can also produce an endless outpouring of new-model, style-obsolescent science.
It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot.
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.
I had a picture of a seven-year-old throwing a Frisbee around on the grass but it's treated as a spiritual place.
You know what sucks? I haven't been able to do much more than passively watch DVDs, because even trying to focus long enough to read is exhausting.
You know that Jonny Wurster kid, the kid that does the backend for that other website? He's a foreign kid. Some of the neighbors say he smokes crack, but I don't believe it.