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Sample Insights:

1) Throughout history, while relatively continuous and steady progress was being made in most areas of science, the medical field seemed to suffer from extremely slow advancement. This may be due to researchers’ tendency to focus on observation and logic rather than hands-on exploration of nature and living bodies.

2) The common consensus that biology and nature were chaotic, and thus impossible to study, was a big factor in preventing progress.