Who is the father of modern science?

Question

Who is the father of modern science?

Answer 1

Archimedes?

Answer 2

albert einstein

Answer 3

Depends on your definition of 'modern science'.

Generally speaking, most people consider the birth of modern science happened when we first came up with the Scientific Method.

Unfortunately, you cannot pin a single name to the creator, but rather look at the history of science and those who influenced its thought-process most.

Notable names of those who have most influenced scientific thought and progress range from Aristotelian science and empiricism to Galileo Galilei, Descartes' Aristotelian ambitions to Newton’s Rules of Reasoning, and so forth.

Names like Albert Einstein are famous because of their theories and contributions to specific fields of science (i.e. physics), but they cannot be attributed to the birth of the modern view of all science.

Moreover, the father of modern physics can be contested to be Planck or Shroedinger - not even Einstein! (who had a part in this development, however) - because of the birth of Quantum Mechanics, which now dominates modern physics.

Most philosophers tend to agree modern science (the act of performing the scientific method using inductive and deductive reasoning as described by Popper and Kuhn) was first developed in its infancy by Galileo and Descartes.

I’d be doing science injustice by trying to explain everything about what these guys did, so check out the following two links: