Carolina QuotesToday I think we are beginning to suspect that man is not a tiny cog that doesn’t really make much difference to the running of the huge machine, but rather that there is a much more intimate tie between man and the universe than we heretofore suspected…The physical world is in some deep sense tied to the human being.
John Archibald Wheeler Connected to the Carolinas
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As quoted by Ken Wilber in Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists (2001) Shambhala, .
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“Today I think we are beginning to suspect that man is not a …” John Archibald Wheeler. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-F272088811. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/f272088811
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