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Asked by coolskeleton to Dalya, Derek, Sarah, Tim, Tom on 19 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by manutd, nascientist.
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Tim Millar answered on 13 Jun 2011:
I think it just happened rather than was invented. Someone one day looked across from his house and saw a bird fly past and wondered pehaps “how does that happen?”
There are accounts of scientific thought over 5000 years ago in the area of the world around modern day Iraq. But for man to survive, they musyt have been thinking in a a scientific way how to solve problems that they came across all the time in their daily lives.
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Derek McKay-Bukowski answered on 13 Jun 2011:
There was probably no single inventer of science. Various people have helped develop it and refine it, but this has been many individuals spanning many centuries. To ask who invented science is like asking who invented questions.
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Sarah Thomas answered on 13 Jun 2011:
I would say that the Father of Science was Galileo Galilei who was a 16th century italian astonomer, physicist, mathematician and philosopher. He played a major role in the Scientific Revolution which was a period in time where scientific ideas and theories exploded and laid the foundations of modern science and how we view the world today. It’s kind of the point in time where religion and superstition were replaced by reasoning and knowledge.
Galileo contributed to the science of motion and provided mathematical reasoning for many of the laws of nature. He studied the planets and the milky way. He also made a number of inventions including a thermometer and a telescope.
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Tom Crick answered on 19 Jun 2011:
I don’t think there was a single person who invented science; but maybe as a species we have always been curious about our environment and trying to explain what we can observe…
What do you think?
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