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Modern science
It seems entirely (1) ____________ to us that there are teams of scientists in universities and other institutions around the world, attempting to (2) ____________ the way the world works. However, it hasn't always been that (3) ____________ . Although the scientific method is now four or five hundred years old, the ancient Greeks, for example, believed that they could work out the (4) ____________ of natural events just by the
power of thought.
During the 17th century, more and more people began to realise that they could (5) ____________ their scientific ideas by designing a relevant (6) ____________ and seeing what happened. A lot of (7) ____________ was made in this way by individual scientists.These men and women often worked alone, carrying out (8) ____________ into many different areas of science, and they often received very little (9) ____________ for their hard work. At the start of the 20th century, though, it became (10) ____________ that science was becoming more complicated and more expensive. The individual scientist disappeared, to be replaced by highly qualified teams of experts.Modern science was born.
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