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Cosmology, the study of the universe as a whole, is science's fairytale princess -grimly guarded by all manner of intellectual spears, deadfalls and barriers. Even the scientists' imperfect understanding of the strange, violent and orderly ways of the stars and the galaxies requires a mastery of nearly every known technique of physics and mathematics. To assail the defenses of cosmology requires versatile, brash and preferably young...
...acres. Expropriated land had been charted according to productive value. Plots had been rearranged to make each nearly equal to the others in productive possibilities. They were to be assigned by the peasants' drawing lots on appointed days. The lot-drawing had won unanimous peasant approval. "Man is imperfect," observed one villager. "Only luck can assign each man the right piece of land. Only fortune can know what is best for each man in the future...
...Imperfect Wisdom. For five hours, with the White House turning on the heat and helping to direct the strategy, Minnesota's civil-righteous young Hubert Humphrey, Tennessee's Estes Kefauver, New York's Herbert Lehman and North Carolina's lame duck Frank Graham took turns lecturing against the bill. Their arguments were a direct paraphrase of Harry Truman's message...
Illinois' big, shaggy Paul Douglas (who, like Minnesota's Humphrey, had voted for the bill in the first place) joined the filibuster. Obviously torn by the issues at stake, Douglas blurted: "In such imperfect wisdom as I have-and I say this with no sense of self-righteousness-I will vote to uphold the President's veto," and slumped into his chair with a groan...
...Maturity is not guaranteed by lapse of time. In this imperfect world not all individuals and not all peoples, however long they live, achieve it . . . Go into some Latin American countries where free speech is allowed, and, if an election campaign is in progress, note the campaign language painted on the walls of the town: Viva Rodríguez! Que muera González! (Long Live Rodríguez! Death to González!). The Gonzalistas, in turn, announce that when they get into power they will hang the Rodriguistas. Imagine an election campaign conducted in the U.S. or England...