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Old 11-05-2009, 10:08 AM
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Originally Posted by piece-itpete View Post
Yes they have been right, but they have been wrong in some spectacular ways.

Wait, perhaps I should say people have been wrong. Common beliefs are often wrong and nowadays we look to scientists as somewhat infallable.

I was thinking largely of Ptolemy's geocentric model.

Pete
clearly what "makes sense" now might not "make sense" when more is discovered
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