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 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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Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
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My political giving has merely followed my relationships.
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But if we ask where precisely in the brain that point of view is located, the simple assumptions that work so well on larger scales of space and time break down. It is now quite clear that there is no single point in the brain where all information funnels in, and this fact has some far from obvious consequences.
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I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.
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Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
