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Not exactly. If we want to know how objects fall, though, we shouldn't ask people with the socially-awarded status of authority, we should look at falling things - like bricks.
This was the insight that started the scientific method. If you want to know how things fall, don't read Aristotle, drop things and watch them.
Empiricism, trial and error - these are the most powerful forces for knowledge there are. Reason is excellent, but overrated.