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You can radically change humanity's understanding of the universe and still get tripped up by bureaucratic nonsense. Hubble proved that the universe was…
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William Harvey figured out that blood actually pumps continuously through the human heart, but he was utterly terrified of the academic blowback. Knowing that…
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