The best Quotes by John Wheeler

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

The best way to learn something is to have to teach it.

Explain time? Not without explaining existence. Explain existence? Not without explaining time.

The question is - what is the question?

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

Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.

If you are not completely confused by quantum mechanics, you do not understand it.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Never memorize what you can look up in books.

Everything existing in the Universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

When it comes to the universe we're all shareholders.

If you can't find something to live for, you best find something to die for.

Not everything has to make sense. It's totally fine when it's fun.

Quantum physics makes me so happy. It's like looking at the universe naked.

This physicist goes into an ice cream parlor every week and orders an ice cream sundae for himself, and then offers one to the empty stool sitting next to him. This goes on for a while until the owner finally asks him what he's doing. The man says, "Well, I'm a physicist, and quantum mechanics teaches us, that it is possible for the matter above this stool to spontaneously turn into a beautiful woman who might accept my offer and fall in love with me." The owner then says, "Lots of single, beautiful women come in here ever day. Buy an ice cream for one of them, and they might fall in love with you." And the physicist says, "Yeah, but what are the odds of that happening?!"

Spent all these years to find out about the quantum realm and I found out that I know nothing.

Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.

Things never happen the same way twice.

Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different...

Every Star that you see in the Sky might be a sun to someone.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist knows it.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Ideas can only be useful when they come to life in many minds.

Nature has to be felt.

I am not the least afraid to die.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science - for to fill your heart with love is enough!

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

Cogito, ergo sum. I think; therefore I am.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.