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Giordano Bruno was an interesting philosopher because he left everything he had in order to completely rethink science. Instead of taking the facts that everyone else believed, he rejected them and substituted his own ideas. His theory “that ideas are only the shadows of truth,” brings an interesting perspective to the question of “What is Science?” Because of his almost radical ideas, not many institutions wanted anything to do with him. This allowed him to have an almost unbiased viewpoint. He was not swayed by the church because they had pretty much kicked him out due to his ideas. He wrote that to study science, one must doubt everything. Descartes came along forty or so years later and also concluded the same thing. Some of the things that Bruno theorized made religion out to be something that only incompetent people could believe so he ended up killed at the stake for his heresy. Bruno’s main contribution to the world was in how enthusiastic he was about doubting the mainstream ideas. 