Brian Clegg is a science writer who wrote Before the Big Bang.

Quotes by Brian Clegg in Time One

Taken all together, the problems with the Big Bang plus inflation theory are not tiny negligible gaps between observation and theory; they are huge chasms you could drive a cosmological coach and horses through.

Many physicists have spent their whole careers working on [string theory], and some would argue that this is why a theory that should have been thrown out long ago still has currency: there is too much invested in it.