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letra de pillars of creation - wild noblesse

senator wiley, and congressman miller, mr. webb, mr. bell, scientists, distinguished guests, and ladies and gentlemen:

i appreciate your president having made me an honorary visiting professor
and i will -ssure you that my first lecture will be very brief

i am delighted to be here
and i’m particularly delighted to be here on this occasion

we meet at a college noted for knowledge
in a city noted for progress, in a state noted for strength
and we stand in need of all three, for we meet in an hour of change and challenge
in a decade of hope and fear, in an age of both knowledge and ignorance
the greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds

despite the striking fact that most of the scientists that the world has ever known are alive and working today
despite the fact that this nation¹s own scientific manpower is doubling every 12 years
in a rate of growth more than three times that of our population as a whole, despite that
the vast stretches of the unknown and the unanswered and the unfinished still far outstrip our collective comprehension

no man can fully grasp how far and how fast we have come
but condense, if you will
the 50,000 years of man¹s recorded history in a time span of but a half-century
stated in these terms, we know very little about the first 40 years
except at the end of them advanced man had learned to use the skins of animals to cover them
then about 10 years ago, under this standard
man emerged from his caves to construct other kinds of shelter
only five years ago man learned to write and use a cart with wheels. christianity began less than two years ago
the printing press came this year
and then less than two months ago
during this whole 50-year span of human history
the steam engine provided a new source of power

newton explored the meaning of gravity
last month electric lights and telephones

but create new ills

- wild noblesse

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