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The importance of scientific experiments

The rise of modern science may be tracked back to Roger Bacon times. Roger Bacon, a famous monk and philosopher in Oxford, was born in 1214 and died in 1292. He probably is the first person in the mid-century who pointed out that we must learn science through observing and experimenting things around. He also had many remarkable findings himself. However, Galieo, living 300 years after, was the greatest among several great figures. Those figures in Italy, French, German and British gradually make people see that lots of important truth can be discovered through mastering appropriate observation. Before Galieo, scholars believed that big objects fell more quickly than small ones because Aristotle said so. However Galieo, climbing up to the top of the leaning Tower of pisa and letting two stones with different volume reached on the ground at the same time, proved to the friends that he brought to watch experiment that Aristotle was wrong. It is the spirit from Galieo, going directly to the nature to prove our judgment and theory through experiments, which leads to all important modern scientific discoveries.