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circumstances they are electrified,we have told all there is to recently scientists would have disapproved of such an ,for example,whose natural science dominated Western thought for two thousand years,believed that man could arrive at an understanding of reality by reasoning from selfevident felt,for example,that it is a selfevident principle that everything in the universe has its proper place,hence one can deduce that objects fall to the groud because that’s where they belong,and smoke goes up because that’s where it goal of Aristotelian science was to explain why things science was born when Galileo began trying to explain how things happen and thus originated the method of controlled experiment which now forms the basis of scientific investigation. The aim of controlled scientific experiments is _____.[ANSWER] A)to explain why things happen 8 B)to expalin how things happen C)to describe selfevident principles D)to support Aristelian science What principles most influenced scientific thought for two thoudsand years?[ANSWER] A)The speculations of Thales. B)The forces of electricity,magism and gravity. C)Aristotle’s natural science. D)Galileo’s discoveries. Bertrand Russell’s notion about electricity is _____.[ANSWER] A)disapproved of by most modern scientists B)in agreement with Aristotle’s theory of selfevident principle C)in agreement with scientific investigation directed toward how things happen D)in agreement with scientific investigation directed toward why things happen The passage says that until recently scientific [ANSWER] A)that there are mysterious forces in the universe B)that man cannot discover what forces really are C)that there are selfevident principle D)that we can discover why things behave as they do 9 Modern science came into being _____.[ANSWER] A)when the method of controlled experiment was first introduced B)when Galileo succeeded in explaining how things happen C)when Aristelian scientists tried to explain why things happen