The history of science is punctuated by people who went against the orthodoxy of their times. Galileo was hounded and imprisoned for his belief that the sun was the center of our galaxy. Charles Darwin offended a huge swathe of his Christian peers by coming up with the theory of evolution, in direct contradiction of the prevailing creation narrative. Being a maverick, a rule-breaker with passionate conviction, is a quality lauded by the fiction we consume and the heroes we idolize, from James Bond onwards.
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