"A life-giving factor lies at the centre of the whole machinery and design of the world."
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John Archibald Wheeler, "Foreword", The Anthropic Cosmological Principle by John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler. Oxford, U.K.: Clarendon Press, 1986, p. vii
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