"Well, I have my pet answer, and I was very proud of it. But then, to my horror and disgust, I found that Plato had got the same answer about twenty-five hundred years ago!"
The man with the answer - one he believed to be utterly original when he first hit on it as a teenager - was a mild-mannered and soft-spoken speculative cosmologist by the name of John Leslie.
-Jim Holt, as excerpted from Chapter Eleven, titled "The Ethical Requiredness of There Being Something," in his book, Why Does The World Exist?
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