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Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft and a renowned philanthropist, has always emphasized the importance of science and ...

According to a familiar story, science was born as a pastime of seventeenth-century European gentlemen, who built air pumps, traded telescopes, and measured everything from the size of the earth to ...