John P. Wheeler III famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians.
-- John P. Wheeler III

#Political #Nouns #Scum
Congress is a Mafia running a protection racket.. .
-- John P. Wheeler III

#Running #Political #Mafia
The most cost-effective move we could make in defense spending would be to shift the focus of CIA operations, giving this agency the directive to make trouble for the Soviet Union.
-- John P. Wheeler III

#War #Moving #Agency
The universe does not exist 'out there,' independent of us. We are inescapably involved in bringing about that which appears to be happening. We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense, this is a participatory universe. Physics is no longer satisfied with insights only into particles, fields of force, into geometry, or even into time and space. Today we demand of physics some understanding of existence itself.
-- John P. Wheeler III

#Independent #Science #Space
The laws of physics must provide a mechanism for the universe to come into being.
-- John P. Wheeler III

#Science #Law #Physics
If you don't kick things around with people, you are out of it. Nobody, I always say, can be anybody without somebody being around.
-- John P. Wheeler III

#Teamwork #People #Team Building
Is the very mechanism for the universe to come into being meaningless or unworkable or both unless the universe is guaranteed to produce life, consciousness and observership somewhere and for some little time in its history-to-be?
-- John P. Wheeler III

#Life #Science #Littles

Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life.
Any noun can be verbed.
But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.
Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and interpolated instrumental effects. It also describes music exhibiting influence of that technique which has as its traditional object to secure the effects of surprise, or in the broadest sense, humor.
Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.
Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.
I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.

John P. Wheeler III famous quotes

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