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绝大多数的科学家通过认真工作,会为我们提供对这个世界如何运转的一个又一个真知灼见。但是很遗憾,几乎所有的科学发现,都将在或许明天或许一千年之后,被证明是错误的。托勒密的“地心说”曾经统治了天文学至少一千年,并因此成为了这一年余年中欧洲人宇宙观甚至宗教信仰的基础。然而随着哥白尼《天体运行论》的发表以及伽利略等人的不懈论证,天文学进入了“日
The great majority of scientists who work hard will give us one insight after another about how the world works. Unfortunately, however, almost all scientific discoveries will prove to be wrong, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps a thousand years later. Ptolemy's ”Geocentric Theory“ once ruled astronomy for at least a thousand years and thus became the basis of European cosmology and even religious belief for the rest of the year. However, with the publication of Copernicus's ”theory of the operation of celestial bodies“ and the unrelenting demonstration of Galileo and others, astronomy entered the ”