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SCIENCE

ALTHOUGH CURIOUS MINDS HAVE BEEN ASKING QUESTIONS AND PURSUING KNOWLEDGE SINCE THE TIME OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS, SCIENCE, AS WE KNOW IT TODAY, MOSTLY TOOK FORM IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. THE WORD SCIENTIST WAS COINED IN 1834. UNTIL THEN, PEOPLE WHO STUDIED NATURE AND HOW THINGS WORKED WERE CALLED “NATURAL PHILOSOPHERS” AND “CULTIVATORS OF SCIENCE,” AMONG OTHER THINGS.

For a long time, science was mostly the pursuit of a very small group of people who had the time, opportunity, education, and money to do it. In England in the ...