「宇宙を見渡し、私たちに都合よく働いてくれた物理学と天文学の数々の偶然を数え上げていくと、宇宙はある意味で私たちが来ることを知っていたかのようにさえ思えてくる。」
"As we look out into the Universe and identify the many accidents of physics and astronomy that have worked together to our benefit, it almost seems as if the Universe must in some sense have known that we were coming."
出典: J.D.バロウ/F.J.ティプラー『The Anthropic Cosmological Principle』(1986) 所収