John Archibald Wheeler

Physicist

1911-07-09

Books by John Archibald Wheeler

Geons, black holes, and quantum foam
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A Journey into Gravity and Spacetime ("Scientific American" Library)
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At home in the universe
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Quotes by John Archibald Wheeler

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.
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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?
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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.
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