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“ We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. ”

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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?

~ John Archibald Wheeler

Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.

~ John Archibald Wheeler

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

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Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

~ John Archibald Wheeler