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As to change: The stars, once thought of as symbols of constancy,
are seething fireballs hurtling along in a changing galaxy in a
changing universe, and this realization clearly has
its unsettling side.
But so did the illusion of a changeless cosmos that preceded
it. When the heavens were thought to be eternal and unalterable,
it was tempting to regard the turmoil of human affairs as
fundamentally different in character from the workings of nature.
To live on earth was to be
condemned to mutability and corruption,
while the stars revelled in immutability and incorruptibility.
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