John Archibald Wheeler Quotes - Page 2

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

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Science, Museums, Religion

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• Of all heroes , Spinoza was Einstein 's greatest. No one expressed more strongly then he a belief in the harmony , the beauty , and most of all the ultimate comprehensibility of nature.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Hero, Belief, Spinoza

  "Albert Einstein". "Biographical Memoirs" Vol. 51, National Academy of Sciences, 1980.

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• Surely where there's smoke there's fire? No, where there's so much smoke there's smoke.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Fire, Smoke

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• There are many modes of thinking about the world around us and our place in it. I like to consider all the angles from which we might gain perspective on our amazing universe and the nature of existence.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Thinking, Perspective, World

  John Archibald Wheeler (2010). “Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics”, p.153, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Curiosity, Trying, Strange

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Events, Degrees, Hot

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