If fame just so happens to occur (looking at you Galileo!) Then so be it. Holding true to your beliefs and the beliefs of those you love and respect can be far more important. Some things are more important than being right or famous and renowned by others. “See, my boy, that nothing turn you to the mere pursuit of fame.” Some argue that the hardest part of death is being left behind, they’re the ones that feel and notice the loss. “Might have cherished you more wisely, as the one I leave behind.” Life goes on, you can sometimes best remember someone through continuing the things they love, or that you love, which is encouraging. This is reminding his pupil how there are other things to consider, beyond death. You will need them, mine observer, yet for many another night” “What, my boy, you are not weeping? You should save your eyes for sight maybe ever? Even if you don’t have faith, you can see the beauty of the idea of a soul and the love it held continuing on in one form or another. I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” “Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light He stood firmly, although insults were hurled (okay, maybe I looked up obloquy) and many considered him to be going against his own faith- although he was supposedly very religious. In Galileo’s time, his ideas were both unaccepted and discouraged. “And remember men will scorn it, ‘tis original and true,Īnd the obloquy of newness may fall bitterly on you.”
Their previous work can seem trivial, or elementary, yet without it they never would have been able to get to the point they are today.
We are working to completion, working on from then to now.”Ī scientist or astronomer can spend their life working towards a goal, a hypothesis to be realized and still discover things later to discredit themselves or change the commonly accepted ideas. He may know the law of all things, yet be ignorant of how “When I share my later science, sitting humbly at his feet This respect for learning and religion and the love the astronomer has to his pupil is so clear in the words, and the advice passed on to the pupil. I’ve heard science likened to religion in some aspects- a meaning and a pattern to life. It addresses some of the aspects of old age, such as nostalgia and also fear of, (or is it longing for?) death. This poem is both written in retrospect and in regard to the future. My lovely friend Mary Cate showed me this poem (poem creds!) I picked some of the strongest lines from this poem, which is meant to be from the viewpoint of Galileo.
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