{"author":"John Archibald Wheeler","author_id":"John+Archibald+Wheeler","total_quotes":7,"quotes":[{"text":"But some numbers, called dimensionless numbers, have the same numerical value no matter what units of measurement are chosen. Probably the most famous of these is the 'fine-structure constant,' .... Physicists love this number not just because it is dimensionless, but also because it is a combination of three fundamental constants of nature.","author":"John Archibald Wheeler","tags":["fine-structure-constant","history-of-science","physics"],"id":9110,"author_id":"John+Archibald+Wheeler"},{"text":"Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.","author":"John Archibald Wheeler","tags":["acausal","big-bang","cosmology","laws-of-nature","nobel-laureate","origin-of-the-universe","origin-of-universe","physical-law","physics","quantum-cosmology","quantum-fluctuations","quantum-mechanics"],"id":16796,"author_id":"John+Archibald+Wheeler"},{"text":"We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.","author":"John Archibald Wheeler","tags":["ignorance","knowledge","reality"],"id":167753,"author_id":"John+Archibald+Wheeler"},{"text":"The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe.","author":"John Archibald Wheeler","tags":["consciousness"],"id":279596,"author_id":"John+Archibald+Wheeler"},{"text":"Physicists love this number not just because it is dimensionless, but also because it is a combination of three fundamental constants of nature. Why do these constants come together to make the particular number 1/137.036 and not some other number?","author":"John Archibald Wheeler","tags":["fine-structure-constant","number","physicists","physics","science"],"id":353638,"author_id":"John+Archibald+Wheeler"},{"text":"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.","author":"John Archibald Wheeler","tags":["time","way","happening "],"id":367806,"author_id":"John+Archibald+Wheeler"},{"text":"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.","author":"John Archibald Wheeler","tags":["everything","happening","once "],"id":473449,"author_id":"John+Archibald+Wheeler"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}