John Archibald Wheeler Quotes About Physics

Quotes about: Physics

• Time, among all concepts in the world of physics, puts up the greatest resistance to being dethroned from ideal continuum to the world of the discrete, of information, of bits.... Of all obstacles to a thoroughly penetrating account of existence, none looms up more dismayingly than 'time.' Explain time? Not without explaining existence. Explain existence? Not without explaining time. To uncover the deep and hidden connection between time and existence ... is a task for the future.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Time, Connections, Tasks

• One can only learn by teaching.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Teaching, Physics

• The laws of physics that we regard
  as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything
  but.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Law, Sacred, Physics

  John Archibald Wheeler (2010). “Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics”, p.298, W. W. Norton & Company

• 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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