There was once an Astronomer whose habit it was to go out at night and observe the stars. One night, as he was walking about outside the town gates, gazing up absorbed into the sky and not looking where he was going, he fell into a dry well. As he lay there groaning, some one passing by heard him, and, coming to the edge of the well, looked down and, on learning what had happened, said, “If you really mean to say that you were looking so hard at the sky that you didn't even see where your feet were carrying you along the ground, it appears to me that you deserve all you've got.”
有一个天文学家，习惯在晚上出门观星。一个晚上，他走出了城门，专注地看着天空，没有留意自己脚下的路，结果掉进了一口枯井中。他躺在井底，哀声呻吟。有人经过，听到了他的声音，来到井口向下看，得知发生的事情后，便说：“如果你说的是真的，你那么专注地看着天空却没有留意你的脚把你带向哪里，那我觉得，你落得现在的下场，也是活该。”