John Archibald Wheeler

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

“It from bit. Otherwise put, every it—every particle, every field of force, even the spacetime continuum itself—derives its function, its meaning, its very existence entirely from the binary digits, the bits, that give a yes-or-no answer to binary questions.”

“Time is nature's way to keep everything from happening at once.”