--- John Wheeler, via a Nautilus animation of comments by Robbert Dijkgraaf
From an obituary, "Magic without Magic: John Archibald Wheeler (1911-2008)" by @curiouswavefn
Only Wheeler could have introduced paradoxical and yet meaningful phrases like "mass without mass". In celebration of his sixtieth birthday, physicists produced a volume dedicated to him with a title that appropriately captured the essence of his thinking- "magic without magic".
The 1972 festschrift: Magic without magic: John Archibald Wheeler;: A collection of essays in honor of his sixtieth birthday (amazon).
