The inquiry into Nature having thus been pursued nearly two thousand years theologically, we find by the middle of the sixteenth century some promising beginnings of a different method—the method of inquiry into Nature scientifically—the method which seeks not plausibilities but facts.

— Andrew Dickson White A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (1896)

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