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Science existed before the formulation of the scientific method. The accumulation of knowledge has always been fundamental to science going back to Aristotle.

• jonhendry 16y ago
  Yeah, but a lot of that 'knowledge' was noise, just-so stories, myths, coincidences, best guesses, fanciful explanations, etc.
  • jemfinch 16y ago
    There's a reason Aristotle is known primarily as a philosopher and only secondarily as a scientist.