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"Every great physical theory starts as a heresy and ends as a dogma". Give some examples from the history of science of the validity of this incisive remark.

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Ptolemy started from wrong belief of geocentric theory and finished by scientific observations by Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler. This is an historical example of it.
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