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

I don't like honors. I'm appreciated for the work that I did, and for people who appreciate it, and I notice that other physicists use my work. I don't need anything else. I don't think there's any sense to anything else.... I've already got the prize. The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it. Those are the real things. The honors are unreal to me. I don't believe in honors... I can't stand it, it hurts me.

It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe.

[B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.

It does not make any difference how beautiful your guess is. It does not make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is if it disagrees with experiment it is wrong. That is all there is to it.