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Science is humanity’s ongoing attempt to understand 【小题1】 the Universe works. Whether in the form 【小题2】 meticulous research, ingenious insight, or unexpected discoveries, the search for truth continues to challenge, often 【小题3】 (lead) to more questions than answers.
Throughout history, humans have always been driven to understand the workings of the world. In their quest for knowledge, philosophers in ancient Greece were the first 【小题4】 (try) to explain what they observed. However, many of their ideas were 【小题5】(accurate), as their philosophical method lacked any experimental evidence.
Thales of Miletus in the 6th century BCE, for example, proposed that water is the primary substance of the cosmos, as he 【小题6】(realize) that water is essential for life and that it exists on land, sea, and in the air. Two centuries later, Aristotle wrote widely on scientific subjects, from physics and biology to astronomy, laying the foundations for much of the work that has followed. However, he 【小题7】 made fundamental errors, such as arguing that 【小题8】(heavy) objects fall faster than lighter ones, because he relied on thought and argument rather than empirical proof.
Despite being some distance from a reliable scientific method --- in 【小题9】 a hypothesis is proposed, systematically tested, and evaluated on the strength of the results --- 【小题10】 early thinkers made vital findings, Halley’s comet was observed in China in 240 BCE. and some 300years later, Zhang Heng explained eclipses and drew up an extensive catalog of stars.