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Now let’s broaden our scope and look at some other groundbreaking discoveries. Match the discoveries to the corresponding comments, starting with ones which we might consider older…
Fire
The Earth in motion
Gravity
Germ theory of disease
Electricity
Without this discovery life as we now know it would simply be impossible. And foods like sushi would be a lot more popular, I guess.
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People originally denied this discovery because their surroundings seemed so still and stable.
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I wonder how many apples fell on how many people's heads before it prompted one of them to make this discovery?
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This discovery allowed us to abandon the idea that illness came from bad smells or even evil spirits!
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This momentous discovery must have put a lot of candle manufacturers out of business.
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And now some more recent (more or less…) discoveries:
Vaccines
The big bang theory
Atomic theory
Antibiotics
DNA
Thanks to this discovery diseases like polio and smallpox have now been eradicated or are far less common.
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An idea generally accepted as explaining, at least in part, how it all started. What it all means is another question!
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This discovery transformed how we think about matter, making possible future developments like accessing practically limitless sources of energy.
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A twentieth-century discovery that has saved countless lives by offering a viable treatment for bacterial infection.
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The chemical code which determines the characteristics of all living things and which may well provide the basis for medical treatment in the future.
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