John Archibald Wheeler Quotes

It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

I don't think there is a hidden purpose to the universe that you have to puzzle out.

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

So I try not to look too far into the future because I think that everything happens and will happen for a reason.

I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.

I believe in fate. Sometimes that means an old bearded guy sitting on a cloud and pulling the strings; sometimes it means random atoms swirling through a cheerless universe; sometimes it means everything being preordained thanks to your karma credit from your previous lives.

Life has a way of working out the way it's meant to.

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all.

'What is the purpose of the universe?' is a silly question.

There is a design behind the world that we are living in, which is veiled to most of us most of the time, but every once in a while, you catch a glimpse of it.

Let the universe show us what it is.

I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.

I feel like whatever is meant is meant. I feel like this is already written.

It's all for a reason and all happened the way it was supposed to happen.

I am of the thinking that everything happens as it should and when it should.

There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.

I truly believe the book of philosophy to be that which stands perpetually open before our eyes, though since it is written in characters different from those of our alphabet it cannot be read by everyone.

Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.

Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.

Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.

In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet.

In each little life, we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all things in the universe. If we alow ourselves to be enchanted by the beauty of the ordinary, we begin to see that all things extraordinary.