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John Archibald Wheeler Quotes
John Archibald Wheeler Quotes
John Archibald Wheeler
American
Physicist
Born:
Jul 9
,
1911
Died:
Apr 13
,
2008
Any
Beautiful
Been
Simple
Strangest
Will
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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
John Archibald Wheeler
Knowledge
Ignorance
Live
Our
Island
Does
Surrounded
Shore
Sea
Grows
To hate is to study, to study is to understand, to understand is to appreciate, to appreciate is to love. So maybe I'll end up loving your theory.
John Archibald Wheeler
Love
Hate
Study
Understand
End
Up
Maybe
Loving
To Love
Your
Theory
Appreciate
In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.
John Archibald Wheeler
Field
Find
Any
Then
Explore
Strangest
Thing
Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?
John Archibald Wheeler
Beautiful
Simple
Will
Stupid
Other
Otherwise
Say
Could
Idea
Surely
How
Been
Decade
Behind
Century
Grasp
Each
Millennium
In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.
John Archibald Wheeler
Reality
Other
Broader
Dimensions
Must
More
Take
Understand
Account
Order
Fully
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