MODERN SCIENCE
It seems entirely natural to us that there are teams of scientists in universities and (1)_____ institutions around the world, attempting to
discover the way the world works. (2)_____ , it hasn’t always been that way. Although the scientific method is now four or five hundred years old, the ancient Greeks, for example, believed that they could (3)_____ the causes of natural events just by the power of thought. During the 17 century, more and more people began to realize that they could test their scientific ideas by designing a relevant experiment
and seeing what happened. A lot of (4)_____ was made in this way by individual scientists. These men and women often worked alone,
carrying out research into many different areas of science, and they often received very little (5)_____ for their hard work. At the start of the
20 century, thought, it became clearthat science was becoming more complicated and more expensive. This individual scientist disappeared,
to be replaced by highly qualified teams of experts. Modem science was born.