Edward P. Tryon (1940-2019)

Edward P. Tryon was an American scientist and a professor emeritus of physics at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY). He was the first physicist to propose that our universe originated as a quantum fluctuation of the vacuum.

Quotes

In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.