Science in Personal and Social Perspectives Personal health Safety and security are basic needs of humans. Safety involves freedom from danger, risk, or injury. Types of resources Resources are things we get from the living and nonliving environment to meet the needs and wants of a population. Some resources are basic materials and some are produced from basic resources. Although men and women using scientific inquiry have learned much about the objects, events, and phenomena in nature, much more remains to be understood.
Many people choose science as a career and devote their entire lives to studying it.
Many people derive great pleasure from doing science.