Quotes About Wheeler

They discussed the long, thorough theoretical paper by Niels Bohr and John Wheeler, "The mechanism of nuclear fission," that had been published in the September Physical Review and especially its conclusion, which Bohr and Wheeler had elaborated from Bohr's Sunday-morning graph work, that U235 was probably the isotope of uranium responsible for slow-neutron fission.1205

Journey into Gravity and Spacetime (Wheeler, 1990).

I do not consider myself to be a scientist, and I've always deferred to career scientists on issues of science.

The date here is very interesting, because, as far as I can determine, the first Star Trek episode to refer to a black hole, which it called a black star, was aired in 1967 before Wheeler ever used the term in public.

I did not reach out to the Pruitt E.P.A. at all. I did not lobby them. That was purposeful.

The first variation is called the delayed-choice experiment and was suggested in 1980 by the eminent physicist John Wheeler. The experiment brushes up against an eerily odd-sounding question: Does the past depend on the future?

Paladin, paladin, choke and twitch, bitten by the Wolf-Blood Witch.

I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my task are done.

As the country's most powerful creator of mass culture, Hollywood was considered an especially potent threat by Wheeler and other isolationist leaders. There was little doubt about the influence of movies: more than half of the American people saw at least one movie a week in the late 1930s and early 1940s.