Steven Weinberg (1933) American theoretical physicist
(1993), Epilogue, p. 154
The First Three Minutes (1977; second edition 1993)
“The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.”
Dreams of a Final Theory: The Search for the Fundamental Laws of Nature (1993), ISBN 0-09-922391-0.
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