"There are 10500 or more metastable vacua, which can be thought of as local minima in a huge, multidimensional potential landscape. They differ not only in the value of their vacuum energy, but in their entire low-energy effective field theory, which is determined by local properties near the foot of a valley and thus only very indirectly by the fundamental building blocks of the landscape. Different vacua will have different matter content, coupling constants, and forces. We will not predict the standard model uniquely. We will have to predict many of the features of our universe statistically, from their relative abundance in the landscape."

"Tabari 17:187 "'By God, our religion from which we have departed is better and more correct than that which these people follow. Their religion does not stop them from shedding blood, terrifying the r…"

"We should, of course, expect that any universe which expands without limit will approach the empty de Sitter case, and that its ultimate fate is a state in which each physical unit—perhaps each nebula…"

"It is neither possible nor desirable to make all men think alike. Variety is the very basis of harmony; and, in the sphere of ecclesiastical experience, oneness of feeling is vastly preferable to unan…"

"When we see the havoc wrought on a sea-wall by a storm, it is easy to believe that ocean waves exert a pressure against the shore on which they beat. But it is not easy to think that the tiny ripples …"