Scientist

Isaac Newton changed the world in so many ways. He created the three laws of motion, the book of Principia. He also had another book called Optics. He influenced the world with his theories of gravity…

Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory does not focus on stages of human development but instead focuses on influences from social environments. This theory focuses on five interrelated systems. These sys…

Isaac Newton was one of the most influential scientists in history and one of the most important people of the scientific revolution. Mostly known as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time he …

It's hard performing groundbreaking experiments that will eventually lead to treatments for diseases such as Alzheimer's and cancer. Now try doing it in a makeshift lab in your bedroom while you're hi…

In 1930, a Swiss scientist named fritz Zwicky, while studying a coma cluster of galaxies he noticed something weird about the way they move. The galaxies were going way too fast, so fast that they sho…

Henry David Thoreau, famed naturalist and environmental writer, writes of numerous excursions and occurrences of nature during his lifetime. One such story known only as Huckleberries, explains in det…

Galileo Galilei's Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, written in 1615, employs distinctive rhetoric to justify Copernicanism, fitting it within the Catholic Church's paradigms. He points out how th…

Thomas Alva Edison once said, "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work" when he was working on the construction of the first electric light bulb. The light bulb was invented in …

In the path of scientific discovery, the transition from one paradigm to another can come about through a variety of different reasons. In some cases, old paradigms are rejected due to discrepancies i…

In Albert Einstein's "Science and Religion" paper he supported his theory that Science and Religion are two essential elements in a society and combining them leads to answers and resolutions for both…