We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is aparticipatory universe.
John Archibald WheelerBehind 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 WheelerNo space, no time, no gravity, no electromagnetism, no particles. Nothing. We are back where Plato, Aristotle and Parmenides struggled with the great questions: How Come the Universe, How Come Us, How Come Anything? But happily also we have around the answer to these questions. That's us.
John Archibald WheelerIf you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.
John Archibald Wheeler