Comment Re:Please (Score 1) 305
Newton tried to observe the world and deduce how it works from his (and others) observations. And so did the scientists that followed, how mistaken they might have been at a point or another.
Aristotelician science was deducing how the world works from how it should work (and yes, "God doesn't play dice" is part of that tradition, note though that Einstein did not use that phrase to demonstrate that quantum mechanics was wrong, just that he felt that it had to be wrong somehow). While obviously they had to include some actual observations into their conceptions, still it's philosophy, not science.
Actually, Galileo's answer about some of his thought experiences that he needed not to carry them in the real world, as he already know the result, is vastly anti-scientific too... which is an argument on how he helped invented the scientific method (namely, if he invented it, it didn't entirely exist at his time).