what abt Copernicus....don't u think if he had not been there...we all would not been here discussing all this....

and even Galileo will do...

presently i am reading a play "The Life of Galileo" by Bertolt Brecht
a good reading..though it potrays a little bit different image of galileo from what he is believed to be...

"In the year sixteen hundred and nine
Science's light began to shine
At Padua City, in a modest house
Galileo Galilei set out to prove
The sun is still, the earth is on the move"

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He who is at peace in a time of war.
He who is cool in a time of heat.
He who walks when others run.
He is a fool.
But he is a Happy fool.
-Anonymous and Happy Man
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