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He shouted "eureka" running down the street naked, determinedhow to determine the volume and therefore the density of a
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Archimedes
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With his letters that contained drawings depicting details visible under the high-power microscopes he built himself.
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Anton von Leeuwenhoek
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When studying the orbit of the planet Mars, he discovered the law that planets move around the sun in ellipses.
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Kepler
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He discovered the periodical table of elements, a major breakthrough in the field of chemistry.
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Mendeleyev
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He was the Austrian monk who spent years in scientific isolation while he bred pea plants and studied the results, what we now know as heredity
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Mendel
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Hippocrates
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Is called the "father" of medicine.
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Galileo
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First observed the moons of Jupiter
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The group of people who receive shots but the shots contain no vaccine is called the
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Control group.
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The search in science for the simplest possible explanation is said to use the principle of
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Occam’s razor.
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The biggest concepts in science are called
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Theories.
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Doing science in a Popperian manner means
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Actively seeking experiments that will falsify your hypothesis
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Which statement best summarizes the process of truth in science
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Truth is tentative but not arbitrary.
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When complex mathematical systems are used to make scientific explanations
mathematical systems are called ---
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Models.
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In science, reductionism refers to
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Explaining behaviors in terms of interacting parts.
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The word geometry originally meant
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Measuring the land
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