What is Science?

Subject: What is Science? Mon Feb 16, 2009 10:55 am

Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge" or "knowing") is the effort to discover and increase human understanding of how physical reality works. Using controlled methods, scientists collect data in the form of observations, records of observable physical evidence of natural phenomena, and analyze this information to construct theoretical explanations of how things work. Knowledge in science is gained through research. The methods of scientific research include the generation of hypotheses about how natural phenomena work, and experimentation that tests these hypotheses under controlled conditions. The outcome or product of this empirical scientific process is the formulation of theory that describes human understanding of physical processes and facilitates prediction.

Lavoisier says, "... the impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must consist of three things: the series of facts which are the objects of the science, the ideas which represent these facts and the words by which these ideas are expressed."

A broader modern definition of science may include the natural sciences along with the social and behavioral sciences, as the main subdivisions of science, defining it as the observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena. However, other contemporary definitions still place the natural sciences, which are closely related with the physical world's phenomena, as the only true vehicles of science.

History of science
While empirical investigations of the natural world have been described since antiquity (for example, by Aristotle, Theophrastus and Pliny the Elder), and scientific methods have been employed since the Middle Ages (for example, by Ibn al-Haytham, Abu Rayhan Biruni and Roger Bacon), the dawn of modern science is generally traced back to the early modern period, during what is known as the Scientific Revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries. The Greek word for science is 'επιστήμη', deriving from the verb 'επίσταμαι', which literally means 'to know'.

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Subject: Re: What is Science? Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:18 pm

science is a systemical body of knowledge based on facts.

oh hah. memorized ko pa

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Subject: Re: What is Science? Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:21 pm

ano bang tanung yan para kung nasa grade school hahhaha!

anyways, science is systematized & orderly arrangement of knowledge base on fact true observation & experimentation made

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Subject: Re: What is Science? Mon Feb 16, 2009 7:05 pm

@ hens

science is a systematized body of knowledge base on facts...

correction..

=)

Subject: Re: What is Science? Mon Feb 16, 2009 7:22 pm

^ ei .. systematized pala namali sa type hehe sowie namon

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Subject: Re: What is Science? Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:18 pm

do science contradict the Bible? if yes, how? if not, why?

Subject: Re: What is Science? Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:55 pm

science is based on research, observation, theory and experimental .

bible ( Christianity ) - is based on preaching, prayers, movement through religion, wisdom and faith .

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Subject: Re: What is Science? Thu Mar 19, 2009 7:35 pm

science is my favorite subject when i was still in school

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Subject: Re: What is Science? Thu Mar 19, 2009 7:48 pm

ang ntndaan q lng enerhy.. Energy is d bility tn w0rk

Subject: Re: What is Science? Thu Mar 19, 2009 8:06 pm

d unit for energy s Joule or newton-meter.
nd newton-meter is also the unit for torque(T=Fd).
where F = force(N) and d = distance(m).
Razz

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Subject: Re: What is Science? Thu Mar 19, 2009 9:25 pm

energy is the ability to do work.. Yan tama na

Subject: Re: What is Science? Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:46 pm

arjel13 wrote:

@ hens

science is a systematized body of knowledge base on facts...

correction..

=)

@arjel13

science is a systematized body of knowledge based on facts...

correction..

=)

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Subject: Re: What is Science? Fri Mar 20, 2009 1:19 pm

^yan ang tama Laughing

no offense to jkay pro prang wla ng sense ang thread nato...kasi nasasagot na yung dapat isagot d2, kya mahuhulog lng etong tambayan ng mga spammers...hehehe

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Subject: Re: What is Science? Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:38 pm

mag dagdag na lang tau ng ibang bagay bout science
like branches nito at add info bout sa mga un

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Subject: Re: What is Science? Fri Mar 27, 2009 2:34 pm

hen8 wrote:

science is based on research, observation, theory and experimental .

bible ( Christianity ) - is based on preaching, prayers, movement through religion, wisdom and faith .

science supports darwin's theory of evo . . . .

while the bible says about pro-creation . . . . .

contradiction?