Geons, Black Holes and Quantum Foam Quotes

“Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.”
― John Archibald Wheeler, Geons, Black Holes and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics

“Yes, there is happiness to be found in the mere contemplation of the deepest mysteries.”
― John Archibald Wheeler, Geons, Black Holes and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics

“But some numbers, called dimensionless numbers, have the same numerical value no matter what units of measurement are chosen. Probably the most famous of these is the "fine-structure constant," .... Physicists love this number not just because it is dimensionless, but also because it is a combination of three fundamental constants of nature.”
― John Archibald Wheeler, Geons, Black Holes and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics

“Physicists love this number not just because it is dimensionless, but also because it is a combination of three fundamental constants of nature. Why do these constants come together to make the particular number 1/137.036 and not some other number?”
― John Archibald Wheeler, Geons, Black Holes and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics

“I learn best by teaching. In fact, as I got older, I concluded that I could learn only by teaching. Universities have students, I like to say, to teach the professors.”
― John Archibald Wheeler, Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics

“Broadway”
― John Archibald Wheeler, Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics