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2006-10-20 08:55:10 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference Trivia

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A science, from the Latin, scire, to know, is a body of knowledge that is constructed via observation, hypothesis, experimentation, and logic for the purpose of explaining and predicting events or behavior. Observation, experimentation and critical reasoning all play crucial roles in the advancement of scientific knowledge. A discipline is widely regarded as a science if its practitioners apply the 'scientific method'. According to falsificationists, this involves the formation of a testable hypothesis, followed by ongoing attempts to refute this hypothesis via critical reasoning, experimentation and observation. A hypothesis that has been rigorously tested under a wide variety of conditions, and which remains unrefuted, is tentatively accepted as a useful approximation to the truth, and attains the status of theory; future observations may yet refute it.

2006-10-20 09:01:07 · answer #1 · answered by GoLd E 5 · 1 0

Science Is the Study Of Everything.

2006-10-20 09:03:54 · answer #2 · answered by ♦Its•Possible•But•Not•Logical♦ 3 · 0 0

Science is studies that normally encompass courses based on a knowledge of facts, phenomena, laws, and proximate cause are designated Science (eg, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geography, Geology, Mathematics, Nutrition, and Physics).

2006-10-20 09:01:12 · answer #3 · answered by Inky Pinky Ponky 3 · 0 0

Science in the broadest sense refers to any system of knowledge attained by verifiable means.[1] In a more restricted sense, science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge based on empiricism, experimentation, and methodological naturalism, as well as to the organized body of knowledge humans have gained by such research. This article focuses on the meaning of science in the latter sense.

Scientists maintain that scientific investigation must adhere to the scientific method, a process for evaluating empirical knowledge that explains observable events in nature as results of natural causes, rejecting supernatural notions.

Fields of science are commonly classified along two major lines:
* Natural sciences, the study of the natural phenomena;
* Social sciences, the systematic study of human behavior and societies.

Mathematics has both similarities and differences compared to other fields of science. It is similar to other sciences, because it is a rigorous, structured study of topics such as quantity, structure, space, and change. It is, however, different in its method of arriving at results. Mathematics as a whole is vital to the sciences — indeed, major advances in mathematics have often led to major advances in other sciences. Certain aspects of mathematics are indispensable for the formation of hypotheses, theories, and laws, both in discovering and describing how things work (natural sciences) and how people think and act (social sciences).

Science as defined above is sometimes termed pure science in order to differentiate it from applied science, the latter being the application of scientific research to human needs.

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2006-10-20 22:25:37 · answer #4 · answered by catzpaw 6 · 0 0

Science is the answering of questions about the world around us by using an organized method. (The Scientific Method--what a creative name!)

2006-10-20 12:08:42 · answer #5 · answered by brooke 2 · 0 0

Science is "a department of systematized knowledge as an object of study"

2006-10-20 08:58:09 · answer #6 · answered by swtrilman 2 · 0 0

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