What is science?
The study of and knowledge about the physical world and natural laws.
One of the subjects into which science can be divided.
Science, any system of knowledge that is concerned with the physical world and its phenomena and that entails unbiased observations and systematic experimentation. In general, science involves a pursuit of knowledge covering general truths or the operations of fundamental laws. Science.
The word "science" probably brings to mind many different pictures: a fat textbook, white lab coats and microscopes, an astronomer peering through a telescope, a naturalist in the rainforest, Einstein's equations scribbled on a chalkboard, the launch of the space shuttle, bubbling beakers …. All of those images reflect some aspect of science, but none of them provides a full picture because science has so many facets:
In school, science may sometimes seem like a collection of isolated and static facts listed in a textbook, but that's only a small part of the story. Just as importantly, science is also a process of discovery that allows us to link isolated facts into a coherent and comprehensive understanding of the natural world.
Science (from the Latin word Scientia, meaning "knowledge")
is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.
Modern science is typically divided into three major branches that consist of the natural sciences (e.g., biology, chemistry, and physics), which study nature in the broadest sense; the social sciences (e.g., economics, psychology, and sociology), which study individuals and societies; and the formal sciences (e.g., logic, mathematics, and theoretical computer science), which study abstract concepts. There is disagreement...
such as physics, chemistry, or biology.
Physics is the best example of a science that has developed strong, abstract theories.
...the science of microbiology.
Synonyms: discipline, the body of knowledge, area of study, the branch of knowledge More Synonyms of science
Science is a particular branch of science such as physics, chemistry, or biology.
Physics is the best example of a science that has developed strong, abstract theories.
..the science of microbiology.
“Science is not an encyclopedic body of knowledge about the universe. Instead, it represents a process for proposing and refining theoretical explanations about
the world that are subject to further testing and refinement. But, in order to qualify as ‘scientific knowledge,’ an inference or assertion must be derived by the scientific method. Proposed testimony must be supported by appropriate validation—i.e., ‘good grounds,’ based on what is known. In short, the requirement that an expert’s testimony pertain to ‘scientific knowledge’ establishes a standard
of evidentiary reliability.”
What we call “science” is the human activity practiced by “scientists”, who are often assembled in scientific communities, and whose results and pronouncements often conflict. The history of science is full of ups and downs, which have famously been
likened to political revolutions. There are stated and unstated principles and rules by
which scientists operate, primarily encoded in the “scientific method”, which is in
principle-based on empirical observation, logic, verification, and falsification, but in
practice affected by many other contingencies.
National Science Day is celebrated in India on 28 February each year to mark the discovery of the Raman effect by Indian physicist Sir C. V. Raman on 28 February 1928.
