“Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, so compelling that when — in a decade, a century, or a millennium — we grasp it, we will say to each other, how could it have been otherwise?”

Here is one of several references to this article: https://81018.com/universe-numbers/#2z

John A. Wheeler, Painting of John Archibald Wheeler (hanging in Jadwin Hall at Princeton University) in South Bristol Midcoast Maine

Click on the image to go to the original in the Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences. 1986