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John Archibald Wheeler

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

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John Archibald Wheeler

Time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening at once.

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John Archibald Wheeler

The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe.

John Archibald Wheeler

Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.

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John Archibald Wheeler

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?

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John Archibald Wheeler

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.

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John Archibald Wheeler

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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John Archibald Wheeler

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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