history of science

Some milestones in the history of reason have brought an ever increasing understanding of the world.

1. Religions: ban magic, divination
2. Greeks: classification, abstraction, analysis, logic
3. Greeks: the scientific method, inquiry, dialogue
   
4. Scholastics: experimentation
5. Hypothesis
   
6. University: peer review
   
7. Academy: post graduate research center
8. Definition
   
9. Metrics: use of mathematical methods in research,
10. Verification
    
11. Falsification: Demarcation of science
12. Statistical methods
    
13. Computation
14. Web technologies: Croudsourcing
15. Robotic lab assistants
    
16. Artificial intelligence -