Alistair Cameron Crombie

Quotes

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

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Key dates

Born

4 November 1915

Died

9 February 1996

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Alistair

Gender

male

Citizenship

Australia

Place of birth

Australia

Place of death

Oxford

Occupation

university teacher

Educated at

Jesus College

Employer

Smith College

Languages spoken

English language

Religion

Anglicanism

Doctoral student

Robert Fox

Field of work

historiography of science

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