John Archibald Wheeler Quotes

Even in empty space, time and space still exist.

I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller.

I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.

I wouldn't say that 'The Fabric of the Cosmos' is a book on cosmology. Cosmology certainly plays a big part, but the major theme is our ever-evolving understanding of space and time, and what it all means for our sense of reality.

I find the whole time travel question very unsettling if you take it to its logical extension. I think it might eventually be possible, but then what happens?

I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.

… theoretical physics is actual philosophy. It has revolutionized fundamental concepts, e.g., about space and time (relativity), about causality (quantum theory), and about substance and matter (atomistics), and it has taught us new methods of thinking (complementarity) which are applicable far beyond physics.

I can't even begin to grasp concepts like the multiverse.

Physics as we know it will be over in six months.

I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.

Today's today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.

I've been thinking about forever

If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you were really, really good at algebra you could write the formula for all the future; and although nobody can be so clever as to do it, the formula must exist just as if one could.

Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.

Without space, there is no time.

The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future.

Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.

Wizard's Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past.

There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions can be woven around the electron; it belongs to the waiting list.

The dividing line between the wave or particle nature of matter and radiation is the moment “Now.” As this moment steadily advances through time it coagulates a wavy future into a particle past.

Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.

Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables.

DNA is a quantum computer that localizes a non local omnipresent consciousness or spirit into space time energy information and matter.

There are no fixed points in space.

To be a seeker implies that you need the future. If this is what you believe, it becomes true for you: you will need time until you realize that you don't need time to be who you are.