SCIENCE
/' sīəns/
noun
1. the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the
structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and
experiment.
"the world of science and technology"
synonyms: branch of knowledge, body of knowledge/information, area of study,
discipline, field
noun
1. the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the
structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and
experiment.
"the world of science and technology"
synonyms: branch of knowledge, body of knowledge/information, area of study,
discipline, field
Understanding Science:
To understand what science is, just look around you. What do you see? Perhaps, your hand on the mouse, a computer screen, papers, ballpoint pens, the family cat, the sun shining through the window …. Science is, in one sense, our knowledge of all that — all the stuff that is in the universe: from the tiniest subatomic particles in a single atom of the metal in your computer's circuits, to the nuclear reactions that formed the immense ball of gas that is our sun, to the . . .
To understand what science is, just look around you. What do you see? Perhaps, your hand on the mouse, a computer screen, papers, ballpoint pens, the family cat, the sun shining through the window …. Science is, in one sense, our knowledge of all that — all the stuff that is in the universe: from the tiniest subatomic particles in a single atom of the metal in your computer's circuits, to the nuclear reactions that formed the immense ball of gas that is our sun, to the . . .
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