If we decided to examine the universe objectively in the sense of paying equal attention to portions of equal mass, this would result in a lifelong preoccupation with interstellar dust, relieved only at brief intervals by a survey of incandescent masses of hydrogen--not in a thousand million lifetimes would the turn come to give man even a second's notice. It goes without saying that no one--scientists included--looks at the universe this way, whatever lip-service is given to "objectivity." ... Any attempt rigorously to eliminate our human perspective from our picture of the world must lead to absurdity.