What is your 'opinion' on which decade is the most important to modern science?

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Mine is 1860, Darwin(1859) and mendel(1866).

This decade is my favourite, yours may very well be the same.

I won't forget the question but forgive me if i struggle to select the best answers, as this is an opinion not a factual based question!
 
My favourite is somewhere in 500BC.

This was the era of the Greek early scientists. Mythology had been the only philosophical enquiry used up until then in trying to make sense of human experience of the world. It was during this period that Zeno and others began to formulate the very earliest scientific theories, even though they did not have any scientific rigour to examine them with.

My favourite was Zeno's theory on how we perceive colour. It was common amongst these early scientists to assume the existence of a parallel universe in order to explain the causes of phenonema. In this case, Zeno suggested that there were tubes that entered into our world from another world and that light passed through these tubes. Because the tubes were of different sizes and the inside of the tubes of different levels of smoothness or roughness... the light that emerged was of a different property and was therefore perceived differently. It was seen as different colours!

Remember that this thought was produced by a man who had no scientific knowledge to guide him as we have now. We now understand that light is perceived through the oscillation of light waves. A remarkably close description to Zeno's 'stab in the dark'! (Forgive the pun!)
 
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