The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.

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

If an apple was magnified to the size of the Earth, then the atoms in the apple would be approximately the size of the original apple.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

In fact the total amount that a physicist knows is very little. He has only to remember the rules to get him from one place to another and he is all right.