In this series, The Week looks at the ideas and innovations that permanently changed the way we see the world. This week, the spotlight is on the scientific method: As the world scrambles to deal ...

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the scientific method. It’s the bedrock of modern science. A way of making scientific ideas testable by comparing them to experimental results. One of its earlier practitioners was Sir Isaac Newton.

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