It affirms the extraordinariness of the
ordinary, the spirituality of
matter, the mysteriousness of the natural and
expected — as Luther did when he cried, «If you really examined a kernel of grain thoroughly, you would die of wonderment.»
Lawrence
expects that the spacecraft will significantly shrink levels of uncertainty for such cosmological parameters as the age of the universe and the relative proportions of
ordinary matter (all that we can see and touch) and that mysterious stuff known as dark
matter, which is believed to make up far more of the universe than its
ordinary counterpart.
Rix LJ cited with approval a passage in De Smith's Judicial Review (6th edition, 2007, at paras 10 - 065ff) and headed: Policy and Bias, which noted that decision - makers are entitled «to exhibit certain kinds of bias in the exercise of their judgment or discretion on
matters of public policy» and while
ordinary members of legislative bodies are «entitled, and sometimes
expected, to show political bias» they of course ought not to show personal bias or participate in decisions on a
matter in which they have a private pecuniary or proprietary interest.