It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different.

Wheeler also worked with Niels Bohr in explaining the basic principles behind nuclear fission. John Archibald Wheeler (July 9 1911 – April 13 2008) was an American theoretical physicist who was largely responsible for reviving interest in general relativity in the United States after World War II. He is also known for having coined the terms black hole quantum foam and wormhole and the phrase "it from bit".