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“Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.”
Meaning: Hawking wrote this in A Brief History of Time while recounting how Galileo's telescope observations challenged accepted views of the heavens. It reminds us that progress starts with looking for ourselves. Try testing one household belief, like a cooking tip, with a simple experiment.