"One must be daring and approach the truth: for even if we may not grasp it completely, yet we will get closer to it than we are now" - Galen

[In light of this it appears that the prototype modern scientist enjoys tenets of Epicurean, Utilitarian, Thomist, reductive materialist, and Galenic thought. Contrast with what the modern scientist is not: Kantian, Platonic (most, at least), Aristotelian, Humean, ...]