I have to disregard everybody else, and then I can do my own work.

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

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.

We've learned from experience that the truth will out.

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

The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.

Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from.