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...still so many unanswered scientific questions and problems all around us on earth, why should we start asking new questions and seeking out new problems in space? Scientific research, of course, has never been amenable to rigorous cost accounting in advance. Nor, for that matter, has exploration of any sort. But if we have learned one lesson, it is that research and exploration have a remarkable way of paying off -quite apart from the fact that they demonstrate that man is alive and insatiably curious. And we all feel richer for knowing what explorers and scientists have learned about...
...were silenced. The lord of the world's richest oil sands was so strapped for cash that his yacht Monsour had been seized in Genoa for nonpayment of an Italian architect's $600,000 fee. He was under intense pressure from royal family members to take some sort of action to save the regime, i.e., the princes' enormous financial allowances...
...been trying to throw off the political hold of Britain, the tribalists may in gratitude try to get rid of the progressives once and for all by restoring the Kabaka to his former status as absolute monarch. Said a colonial official sadly: "King Freddie is not the sort of monarch Britain wants...
...fact is that the scientists in our civilization constitute a new sort of religious order [that] sets itself apart from the world by a discipline, a language and an attitude. The attitude is that of contemptus mundi, a scorn for the ordinary pleasures and privileges of life. The language is no longer Latin but mathematics, and this is the universal tongue in which the higher rituals of the order are conducted all over the earth. The candidate who presents himself for ordination must mortify the flesh through long years of labors in the laboratory. His reward is membership...
...minutes later we ran into Khrushchev in the corridor. Now he was bundled up in his black overcoat with the curly black fur collar and the cylindrical black fur hat. He gave us a grin and a sort of salute. Then, accompanied by a general, he moved on down the hall, as round and jolly a commissar as ever stoked the fires or marshaled the might of international Communism...