Alistair Cameron Crombie

Nicolaus Copernicus is the supreme example of a man who revolutionized science by looking at the old facts in a new way.

— Alistair Cameron Crombie

Newton achieved the clearest appreciation of the relation between the empirical elements in a scientific system and the hypothetical elements derived from a philosophy of nature.

— Alistair Cameron Crombie

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

The strategic act by which Grosseteste and his thirteenth- and fourteenth-century successors created modern experimental science was to unite the experimental habit of the practical arts with the rationalism of twelfth-century philosophy.

— Alistair Cameron Crombie