Re: The origin of science

From: Herman Rubin (hrubin_at_odds.stat.purdue.edu)
Date: 03/23/05 

Date: 23 Mar 2005 15:38:57 -0500

In article <c1d437f.0503221613.52b614c0@posting.google.com>,
Nobuo Saito <genkisaito@hotmail.com> wrote:
>mathedman@hotmail.CUT.com (mathedman) wrote in message news:<4236fabe.84910468@netnews.worldnet.att.net>...
>[snip]
>> >This is truly amazing. So my question is reduced to:
>> >why did science flourish in ancient Greek in the first place?
>> >I don't know the answer and maybe nobody knows. Except perhaps Plato...

>> CURIOUSITY !

>Do you think only the Greeks had curiosity at that time?

Did science flourish any more in Greece than in Egypt or
Babylonia or India or China? In fact, the Greeks tended
to avoid observational science, believing that it could
all be deduced logically.

What the Greeks did was to introduce the idea of proceeding
from axioms to conclusions. 

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