I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians.
John P. Wheeler IIIThe universe does not exist 'out there,' independent of us. We are inescapably involved in bringing about that which appears to be happening. We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense, this is a participatory universe. Physics is no longer satisfied with insights only into particles, fields of force, into geometry, or even into time and space. Today we demand of physics some understanding of existence itself.
John P. Wheeler IIIThe laws of physics must provide a mechanism for the universe to come into being.
John P. Wheeler III