At twenty-three... there was no physicist on earth who could match his exuberant command over the native materials of theoretical science. It was not just a facility at mathematics (though it had become clear... that the mathematical machinery emerging from the Wheeler-Feynman collaboration was beyond Wheeler's own ability).
Sa loob ng dalawampu't-tatlong... walang pisisista sa lupa na maaaring tumugma sa kanyang masayang-masaya na utos sa katutubong materyales ng panteorya science. Ito ay hindi lamang isang pasilidad sa matematika (kahit na ito ay maging malinaw... na ang matematikal na makinarya umuusbong mula sa Wheeler-Feynman kolaborasyon ay lampas Wheeler sariling kakayahan).