A long time back, thousands of years ago, God sent down the Qur'an as a guide to all humanity.

At the time the Arab society was going through a phase of chaos. They were among those people who worshiped their own demi gods, they used to have a strong belief in warfare and bloodshed to be virtuous. They were also capable of killing their own children. They had no interest in any kind of intellectual matter, let alone a scientific outlook to the natural world.

However, it was with the help of Islam that they learned humanity and civilization. It is not the matter with the  Arabs but all the communities who followed Islam with full belief and escaped the darkness ignorance. It helped them to experience bliss!

They were illuminated by the divine wisdom of the Qur'an. Amongst other nice thoughts the Qur'an brought to humanity was scientific thinking.

The Scientific Paradigm Given in the Qur'an

“Do they not look at the sky above them? How We have made it and adorned it, and there are no flaws in it? And the earth, We have spread it out, and set thereon mountains standing firm, and produced therein every kind of beautiful growth (in pairs), To be observed and commemorated by every devotee turning (to God).”

“Have they not looked at the camel-how it was created?
And at the sky-how it was raised up?
And at the mountains-how they were embedded?
And at the earth-how it is spread out?
So remind them! You are only a reminder”

Robert Briffault wrote in The Making of Humanity:

"The debt of our science to that of the Arabs does not consist in startling discoveries or revolutionary theories; science owes a great deal more to Arab culture, it owes its existence. The ancient world was, as we saw, pre- scientific. The astronomy and mathematics of the Greeks were a foreign importation never thoroughly acclimatized in Greek culture. The Greeks systematized, generalized and theorized, but the patient ways of investigation, the accumulation of positive knowledge, the minute methods of science, detailed and prolonged observation, experimental inquiry, were altogether alien to the Greek temperament. [...] What we call science arose in Europe as a result of a new spirit of inquiry, of new methods of investigation, of the method of experiment, observation, measurement, of the development of mathematics in a form unknown to the Greeks. That spirit and those methods were introduced into the European world by the Arabs."

The other scientists who established modern science were all in terms of religious activities:

Kepler, who was called as the founder of modern astronomy, gave answers to all those people who asked him why he busied himself with science, "I had the intention of becoming a theologian... but now I see how God is, by my endeavors, also glorified in astronomy, for 'heavens declare the glory of God'".

As for Newton, he said that the sole reason underlying his zeal for scientific endeavor:
"...He (God) is eternal and infinite, omnipotent and omniscient; that is, his duration reaches from eternity to eternity; his presence from infinity to infinity; he governs all things, and knows all things that are or can be done. …We know him only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things... [W]e revere and adore him as his servants…"