“It is said that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch.”

— Alan Guth

as quoted by [Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time, Bantam Books, 1988, 0-553-34614-8, 129]

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American theoretical physicist and cosmologist 1947

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