If we're being honest, Galileo himself was probably an arrogant tit he just had the good fortune to be correct
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And even those who are truly right once can be wrong the rest of the time.
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Galileo was egregiously wrong about his theory of tides & also the University of Free Fall/Equivalence Principle (by minutest fraction). It's no disgrace to be wrong in Science (unless you insist on being damn wrong). Some of his Inquisitors thought he was an arrogant tit too.
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Universality that is, though I don't know the state of Pisa U. at the time.
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And in his case it was the scientists.
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that may be a vast underestimation
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Seems to be about 1million to 1
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