For without experiment nothing can be sufficiently known. Therefore, he who wishes to be certain of the truths of things must have recourse to experiment.
— Roger Bacon Medieval

Early advocate of scientific method

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Opus Majus, Part VI, Chapter I

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c. 1267

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Controversial

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https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/bacon-opusmajus.asp

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