If asked who gave birth to the modern scientific method, how might you respond? Isaac Newton, maybe? Galileo? Aristotle? A great many students of science history would probably respond, "Roger Bacon." ...

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Reproduce the experiment until there are no discrepancies between observations and theory. It's this method that truly defines science. Superficial, all-encompassing definitions constantly change, but ...