Modern Science
It seems entirely (1) _________ to us that there are teams of scientists in universities and other institutions around the world, attempting to (2) _________ the way the world works. However, it hasn’t always been that (3) _________. Although the scientific method is now four or five hundred years old, the ancient Greeks, for example, believed that they could work out the (4) _________ of natural events just by the power of thought.
During the 17^th century, more and more people began to realize that they could (5) _________ their scientific ideas by designing a relevant (6) _________ and seeing what happened. A lot of (7) _________ was made in this way by individual scientists. These men and women often worked alone, carrying out (8) _________ into many different areas of science, and they often received very little (9) _________ for their hard work. At the start of the 20^th century, though, it became (10) _________ that science was becoming more complicated and more expensive. The individual scientists disappeared, to be replaced by highly qualified teams of experts. Modern science was born.

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