John Archibald Wheeler - At Home in the Universe (1994)

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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, to close on itself our quartet of questions, is a task for the future.

John Archibald Wheeler

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

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

I have great hesitation in trying to formulate some unifying concepts out of my own field, and still more reluctance in speaking about their application to other fields of human knowledge.

John Archibald Wheeler

The human activity that we call science is not science unless it is the uncovering or discovery of something new.

John Archibald Wheeler