John Archibald Wheeler Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• It from bit symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom...an immaterial source and explanation...that all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and that this is a participatory universe.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Ideas, World, Information

  "Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information" edited by Wojciech H. Zurek, (p. 5), 1990.

• 'Participant' is the incontrovertible new concept given by quantum mechanics. It strikes down the 'observer' of classical theory, the man who stands safely behind the thick glass wall and watches what goes on without taking part. It can't be done, quantum mechanics says it...May the universe in some sense be 'brought into being' by the participation of those who participate?

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Wall, Men, Glasses

• The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Giving, Birth, Consciousness

• 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

• We will first understand how simple the universe is when we recognize how strange it is.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Simple, Firsts, Strange

  John Archibald Wheeler (2010). “Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics”, p.5, W. W. Norton & Company

• We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is aparticipatory universe.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Strange, Observers, Universe

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

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Science, Museums, Religion

• No space, no time, no gravity, no electromagnetism, no particles. Nothing. We are back where Plato, Aristotle and Parmenides struggled with the great questions: How Come the Universe, How Come Us, How Come Anything? But happily also we have around the answer to these questions. That's us.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Plato, Space, Answers

  "Peering Through the Gates of Time" by Dennis Overbye, www.nytimes.com. March 12, 2002.

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