John Archibald Wheeler

“A black hole has no hair.”

“Matter tells space-time how to curve, and space-time tells matter how to move.”

“Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.”

“There is no law except the law that there is no law.”

“We are participators in bringing into being not only the near and here but the far away and long ago.”

“If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.”

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”

“Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it... we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise?”

“The greatest discoveries are yet to come.”

“To my mind, there must be at the bottom of it all, not an equation, but an utterly simple idea.”

“No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.”

“The universe does not exist 'out there,' independent of us. We are inescapably involved in bringing about that which appears to be happening.”

“Every law of physics taken to its extreme predicts a singularity.”

“Individuality is the secret of survival.”