In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

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Galileo Galilei
Italian natural philosopher born in 1564. His telescopic discoveries and falling-body experiments replaced Aristotelian speculation with observation and mathematical formulation.
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