„Wenn wir in das Universum hinausblicken und erkennen, wie viele Zufälle in Physik und Astronomie zu unserem Wohle zusammengearbeitet haben, dann scheint es fast, als habe das Universum gewusst, dass wir kommen.“

Zitiert in John D. Barrow, Frank J. Tipler: The anthropic cosmological principle; Clarendon Press, Oxford 1986 - S. 318
"As we look out into the universe and identify the many accidents of physics and astronomy that have worked to our benefit, it almost seems as if the universe must in some sense have known that we were coming." - The Argument from Design, in: Disturbing the Universe, Harper and Row New York 1979, p. 250