No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.

No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire.

Some people think Wheeler's gotten crazy in his later years, but he's always been crazy.

It does not matter who you are, or how smart you are, or what title you have, or how many of you there are, and certainly not how many papers your side has published, if your prediction is wrong then your hypothesis is wrong. Period.

When you get as old as I am, you start to realize that you've told most of the good stuff you know to other people anyway.

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking. Just tell us how big you want it!