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There is an age-old longing to understand the inner mystery of this strange and beautiful world of ours and our own little place in the scheme of things. Whoever knows a little and can give a little to the search wants to know more and give more.

John Archibald Wheeler

Only by the analysis and interpretation of observations as they are made, and the examination of the larger implications of the results, is one in a satisfactory position to pose new experimental and theoretical questions of the greatest significance.

John Archibald Wheeler

Time ends. That is the lesson of the "big bang." It is also the lesson of the black hole.

John Archibald Wheeler

Should we be prepared to see some day a new structure for the foundations of physics that does away with time? In Paul Davies

John Archibald Wheeler

As we make our way into the world of tomorrow, with its endless frontiers and its opportunities for a deeper and richer civilization than ever before, we will meet and overcome many a new risk. But we know that the greatest risk of all is what it always has been — to be born — for then we are sure to die.

John Archibald Wheeler

So the quantum, fiery creative force of modern physics, has burst forth in eruption after eruption and for all we know the next may be the greatest of all.

John Archibald Wheeler

John Archibald Wheeler

John Archibald Wheeler

Born: July 9, 1911

Died: April 13, 2008 (aged 96)

Bio: John Archibald Wheeler was an American theoretical physicist. He was largely responsible for reviving interest in general relativity in the United States after World War II.

Known for:

A Journey into Gravity and Spacetime (1990)
Exploring Black Holes (2000)
Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam (1998)
Gravitation and Inertia (1995)
At Home in the Universe (1994)

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