Alan Guth (1947) American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
as quoted by [Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time, Bantam Books, 1988, 0-553-34614-8, 129]
“There is no such thing as free lunch, and even if there were, there’d be no guarantee against indigestion.”
Source: Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences (1988), Chapter 5, “Statistics, Trade-Offs, and Society” (p. 147)
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