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...first expedition to the lunar highlands, Apollo 13 may bring back rocks nearly 5 billion years old, going back to the very beginnings of the solar system. Such trophies would more than convince scientists that the astronauts did not lightly pick the Apollo 13 mission motto: Ex Luna, Scientia -From the Moon, Knowledge...
...target area is covered with jagged hills and ridges, some of them hundreds of feet high. There are relatively few level sites in the vicinity, and the landing will require all of Command Pilot Lovell's skill. But the Apollo 13 astronauts-whose motto is Ex Luna, Scientia (From the Moon, Knowledge)-are taking the risk because of the area's immense geological importance. Unlike the flatter, smoother lunar maria, the highlands have apparently been little changed since the moon was formed some 4.5 billion years ago; thus their structure and composition will give scientists new insights into...
Beyond such folderol, astrology has been taken seriously by serious students. They believe that the ancient religion and superstition from which it springs are embedded in the unconscious of modern man. Psychiatrist Carl G. Jung referred to it as a "scientia intuitiva," and often had horoscopes cast for his patients. The idea was not to predict their futures but to call attention to elements that might or might not lie in their personalities. A horoscope showing excessive fatherlove and tendencies toward sadism, he realized, could be used to provoke talk, self-analysis and perhaps insight. "Today," wrote Jung, "rising...
...sidelines as the University's Encyclopaedia Britannica (TIME, May 24), its film unit which is now working out plans for rapid expansion, its radio Round Table. > Hutchins inspired the students' Daily Maroon to offer $750 in prizes for a motto to replace the present one, Cres-cat Scientia Vita Excolatur, which means "Let Knowledge Grow That Life May Be Enriched." But some people do not understand Latin, and others do not understand "enriched" as spiritually as President Hutchins would wish. He proposed a line from Walt Whitman: "Solitary, singing in the West, I strike...
...Sancta Scientia...
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