As all things in the universe opperate under somewhat different regulations, it is important to keep universal laws somewhat pliable. One could never give the exact path every planet always goes around, because things change. Nothing is constant. The universe is not the predictable set of concentric circles revolving around the earth as Aristotle once thought. The universe is complex.
However, in that complexity it is possible to find some things match. Kepler's laws, so far as we know at this point, hold true. They are useful in determining new knowledge, as Newton proved, and allow man to predict certain aspects of our surroundings.
If one thing were to be extracted from this collection of data, it should be that ideas change. What is held as "true" changes from year to year, and we most likely still haven't gotten it right. What man needs to learn from history is never to settle for what has been proven, but to expand on that knowledge, tweeking it as he goes.
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