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...that Oval Office rendezvous, Clinton was still weaving cosmic dreams for a summer of revived leadership. "I would love to get this bill out by the Tokyo economic summit," which begins July 7, he told the small group before him. "I'd go to the meeting like a 400-lb. gorilla...
Fazio, also a lecturer in the Astronomy Department, says he expects the telescope to be launched by the year 2002. He hopes the telescope will enable scientists to detect of planets clustered around stars as well as the study of early galaxy formation, or "cosmic birth...
There is a third method of dealing with examination questions--that is by the use of the overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it was pretty obvious that the vague generality was the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact it wasn't obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point from which to start. That is an example of an unwarranted assumption...
...something else to breathe fire into it. The question of whether the universe is steady state or Big Bang, or whether it has 10 dimensions or four, is just decorative trim around the grand mystery of why anything or any law exists. But by reminding us of our deep cosmic ignorance, science, far from dulling the mystery of existence, sharpens it the way garlic wafting on the evening breeze whets your appetite. It reminds us that we dwell in a mystery that is ultimately more to be savored than solved...
...bash liberal democracy because it fails to choose. But the failure to choose is itself a choice. What it chooses is that people are, or can be, grownups. That too is a value, the notion that we all individually or collectively may be the salvation of one another. Cosmic ignorance does not diminish us, it ennobles...