"It from Bit symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom an immaterial source and explanation... that all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and that this is a participatory universe."

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Source : "Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information" edited by Wojciech H. Zurek, (p. 5), 1990.

John Archibald Wheeler

#Ideas Quotes #World Quotes #Information Quotes

“We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 605), 1895.
“I don't know anything except being female, so I don't know the opposite of it.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“Cristiano Ronaldo has done massive things in both the Premier League and in the Champions League, but Messi is the best though and I am convinced that next year he will win the Ballon d'Or.”
“No excuses. No explanations.”
“We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”

Source : 'Thoughts on Various Subjects' (1706)
“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”
“The Marquis believed himself to be hardened against flattery. He thought that he had experienced every variety, but he discovered that he was mistaken: the blatantly worshipful look in the eyes of a twelve-year-old, anxiously raised to his, was new to him, and it pierced his defences.”
“Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered.”

Source : "Marion Cotillard's 9/11 conspiracy theory". Interview with Peter Allen, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 1, 2008.

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