Although some scientific research is into specific problems, a great deal of our understanding comes from the curiosity-driven undertaking. This leads to options for technological advance that were not planned or sometimes even imaginable. This point was made by Michael Faraday when allegedly in response to the question "what is the use of...
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
Sunday, 27 November 2016
Certainty and science
A scientific theory is and is always open to if new evidence is presented. That is, no theory is ever considered strictly as science accepts the concept of .The philosopher of science sharply distinguished truth from certainty. He wrote that scientific knowledge "consists in the search for truth," but it "is not the...
Saturday, 26 November 2016
Science policy
Science policy is an area of concerned with the policies that affect the conduct of the scientific enterprise, including often in pursuance of other national policy goals such as technological innovation to promote commercial product development, weapons development, health care and environmental monitoring. Science policy also refers to...
Friday, 25 November 2016
Women in science
Science has historically been a male-dominated field, with some notable exceptions. Women faced considerable discrimination in science, much as they did in other areas of male-dominated societies, such as frequently being passed over for job opportunities and denied credit for their work For example,(1847–1930) was able to enter a PhD program...
Monday, 21 November 2016
Mathematics and formal sciences
Mathematics is essential to the sciences. One important function of mathematics in science is the role it plays in the expression of scientific models. Observing and as well as hypothesizing and predicting, often require extensive use of mathematics. For example and are all essential to Virtually every branch of mathematics...
Renaissance and early modern science
Made innovative use of experiment and mathematics. However, he became persecuted after Pope Urban VIII blessed Galileo to write about the Copernican system. Galileo had used arguments from the Pope and put them in the voice of the simpleton in the work "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems," which greatly offended him.
In Northern...
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Science in a broad sense existed before the and in many historical is distinct in its and successful in its so it now defines what science is in the strictest sense of the term.
Science in its original sense was a word for a type of knowledge rather than a specialized word for the pursuit of such knowledge. In particular, it...
Antiquity
.Before the invention or discovery of the of by the , the same words tend to be used to describe the natural "way" in which a plant grows, and the "way" in which, for example, one tribe worships a particular god. For this reason it is claimed these men were the first philosophers in the strict sense, and also...