science and civilization

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…is not simply the sum of his discoveries. It also represents the revolution of scientific methodology. Pasteur superimposed two indisputable rules of modern research: the freedom of creative imagination necessarily subjected to rigorous experimentation. His work became the foundation for the science of microbiology, and a cornerstone of modern medicine. Bibliography: http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Aristotle.html http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/ http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/