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Grosseteste's contribution was to emphasize the importance of falsification in the search for true causes and to develop the method of verification and falsification into a systematic method of experimental procedure.

— Alistair Cameron Crombie Robert Grosseteste and the Origins of Experimental Science 1100-1700 (1953)

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