Science is in the business of drawing generalizations to better understand nature. In science, there is little we pride ourselves on more than the fact that we are all about the facts, that we are able to strip away confounding conditions so that we can reveal greater truths about the world. This reliance on empiricism has stood science well and has been a canonical element of the workings of science for more than a thousand years. Islamic scholars who were some of the earliest scientists—about five hundred years before the Renaissance— did work predicated on a scientific method that urged experimentation, proving hypotheses through observation and data, correction of error, and the documentation of fact.
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