Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sometimes seems all head and no tale. Despite its dire point of view, the book jests and jostles with life, and really belongs with the sardonic comic charades of Swift, Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, and Ben Jonson's Volpone. Like them, it is a kind of cosmic hangover suffered by a man who-having drunk overfull of the human race-swears off mankind. Melville's nausea ran so deep that he did not write another novel for 32 years. In the end he did make his peace with the universe, a serene and affirmative...
...pause for parenthetical explanation of the simplest procedures and the oldest rules of evidence. But no government will ever be much better than its courts. No system of welfare services, no multiplication of statutes or policemen can ever substitute for the ancient function in which society reflects dhe cosmic order, however dimly, by the dispensation of justice between...
Hermann J. Schaefer of the Navy's School of Aviation Medicine wants to use the satellite to find out how animal tissue is affected by cosmic rays that have not been slowed by the atmosphere. An "animal capsule," he says, can be carried by the satellite, and the heartbeat and breathing of its inmate can be sent down to earth by radio. Other instruments can report how the spaceborne animal responds to "zero gravity." The most interesting effects of weightlessness, Schaefer admits, are apt to be psychological, and so they will not be observed in full flower until...
...major tenets: 1) it is not correct to live in the past, to seal oneself from the exigencies and rhapsodies of the present; and 2) the way to extricate oneself from such decadence is to search for a positive and present love. Undoubtedly, this theme may have present and cosmic significance, but I do not believe it either necessary or possible to trace its symbolic overtones. Its nearly platitudinous magnitude defies any precise application to immediate world problems...
Professor Einstein was and is a hero of mine. Thirty years ago his lofty character and guileless manner seemed no denial of the deepest insight into human as well as cosmic affairs. Then ... I realized he was not just greatly simple, but naive and biased . . . I have also met mathematical physicists without Einstein's outward simplicity&#amp;151;men of ruthless objectivity in their field-who somehow lacked the experience or will to make even a less than profound analysis of world events. Thus, I reluctantly admit there are scientists whose great accomplishments have given some of their views...