Training in one area may not help you in another, except in the most general sense of understanding how the method of modern science works.

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Islamic students and scholars, fueled by coffee, revived Greek philosophy and laid the groundwork for the scientific method and modern mathematics.

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Another is the modern invention of the Finite Element Method (The FEM) invented by the late Prof.

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That world began when Johannes Gutenberg introduced the printing press in 1455, and gave birth along the way to the Reformation, the Age of Reason, the Enlightenment, the Scientific Method, and finally the Industrial Revolution not to mention the modern era of newspapers, universal education and, yes, mass literacy.

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In addition, with modern technologies and the emphasis on information as a method of currency, people can work in information and knowledge jobs much longer than they could in factory or other manual labor jobs, and can do so from their homes.

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Duke says that its 4.3 percent dividend yield is the method by which it attracts and retains shareholders who are financing its modern power facilities and upgrading its transmission grid.

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Scientific method did not always match modern thought, reductionist thinking is fairly new in the scheme of humanity and is beginning to go out of fashion due to scientific advancement in physics.

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