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I had never heard of Giordano Bruno before this article. I think it’s funny that many great thinkers of their time are never praised by their contemporaries and it isn’t until later, in retrospect, that their works are truly appreciated. Bruno was one of the few “scientists” that was also a man before his time. At the time, “Scientists became too intrigued with their new toys to bother about philosophy. They began to busy themselves with telescopes and microscopes and chemical glassware.” It is unfortunate that all too often many great minds become almost obsessed with analyzing whatever they have in front of them to work with. For Bruno, he was able to take a step back and capture the whole picture. He could think beyond the constraints that science had set at the time. Bruno pondered the impossible, the ends of the universe, and he never did use any tools because they would only hold back his cognitive reaches. He let his vision and thoughts guide him and not the other way around. Many never make any great leaps of discovery because they only see what they expect to see and never look out to see the unimaginable or what cannot be explained at the time. I think this is also why Giordano Bruno was not highly regarded by his peers. His work was never really “scientific” because for his explanations about the universe there didn’t exist any hard evidence. He transcended scientific instruments of the time and pioneered the ability of the mind. This is why many consider him a proponent of free thought. Any form of technology is only so good but the creativity is boundless. For Bruno, many of his theories still hold true today and only now we can pay him more respect after our science has caught up to his imaginings.