modern science and technology owes nothing to the ancient greeks. modern science and technology is based on accepting experiments as sources of truths/facts of

modern science and technology owes nothing to the ancient greeks. modern science and technology is based on accepting experiments as sources of truths/facts of the universe. ancient greek philosophy which prioritized the ideal explicitly shun any knowledge that could be arrived at by observation (i.e. through our senses). the battle to admit experiments into the criteria of truth was mainly waged in britain, from locke onwards. so, while the ancient greeks bequeathed us the immense inheritance of philosophy and the search after truth, we wouldn't be here if we didn't disrespect their strongest argument that truth arrives by cerebration alone.