Alan Guth (1947) American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
Alan Guth and Paul Steinhardt, The inflationary universe, edited by [Paul Davies, The New Physics, Cambridge University Press, 1992, 0-521-43831-4, 54]
“It is said that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch.”
as quoted by [Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time, Bantam Books, 1988, 0-553-34614-8, 129]
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