No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.
John Archibald WheelerRead
Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the simplicity and beauty of fundamental ideas that may only be fully understood over time.
John Archibald Wheeler suggests that there are profound ideas that, while elusive or overlooked in the present moment, will eventually become clear and undeniable to humanity as time progresses. It points to the human tendency to overlook simple truths and highlights our capacity for growth and understanding over generations.
In practice
This quote could be used to inspire students during a lecture on the importance of grasping fundamental concepts in science.
No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.
In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.
In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.
We will first understand how simple the universe is when we recognize how strange it is.
The laws of physics that we regard_x000D_ as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything_x000D_ but.
The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe.
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.
We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.
As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.
We all have to fight to maintain our unique style and taste in a world that would have us conform.
You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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