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According to legend, one day in 1612 the Italian scientist Galileo climbed up to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, dropped two weights from the top and showed that despite having very different masses, they hit the ground at the same moment.
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It was a surprising, counter-intuitive discovery and completely opposed the teachings of Aristotle, which were the accepted standard at the time in the academic world.
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While the Leaning Tower story itself may be the result of several hundred years of revisions and exaggeration, there's no doubt that Galileo performed experiments aimed at proving Aristotle's views of how gravity works were wrong.
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That makes Galileo a pioneer in what has become known as the Scientific Method the forming of a hypothesis, followed by an experiment to test the hypothesis and the drawing of conclusions.
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For a theory to be judged scientific, what it says must be supported by evidence that can be physically observed and measured).
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It is these so-called 'crucial experiments' that determine if a scientific theory will be accepted.
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The best theories are those that stand up to continued attempts to prove them wrong by careful testing.
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This is not to say that scientists before him had not considered experimentation as being important to science, because many had.
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Indeed, the great Arab scholar Alhazan is considered by some to be the father of the scientific method for the surprisingly modern way in which he conducted his research on optics).
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In the words of the Austrian-born British scientist, Max Perutz True science thrives best in glass houses, where everyone can look in.