John Archibald Wheeler Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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I do not like violence.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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When I plan to settle down, I will announce it to the world. Marriage is an occasion to celebrate. I'll celebrate it when it happens, letting everyone know about it.
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I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.
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I love to watch old movies when I get time off.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.
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It's about polarization. You're trying to stir up something in your audience.
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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
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When I go on vacation, I take very few clothes and a whole lot of books. It's the most soothing thing in the world. Reading 'Moby-Dick' is like being in a time machine. I almost feel as excited as the first time I read it and I always find something new.
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There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.
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Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
