Science
* 'community of tradition'.
* -Research the scientific methods used to preserve documents.
* All science involves selection as well as abstraction.
* All science is built on the principle of causality
  - concerned with the relationship of cause and effect
  - directed towards the goal of describing and explaining phenomena in nature
  - teleological, having to do with evolution and progress
  - method of inquiry into phenomena
* All sciences build models of the world
  - discover and collect data
  - have a hidden ontology and all ontologies anticipate a knowledge
  - including electronics requires a certain understanding of mathematics
  - involve making measurements, which are liable to error
  - ultimately study nature
  - work with the research information that is obtained by means of our five senses
* Any science is both a study of knowledge and the process whereby that knowledge is obtained.
* Apply the concept of force and inertia to predict the motion of objects
  - law of conservation of energy
* Ask children to list the animals and insects that appear in Barefoot.
* Build an understanding of earth science, physical science, and life science.
* Develops an awareness of properties, objects, and materials.
* Discuss the environmental relationships between river, land, animal, plant and human life.
* Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art
  - function of the psyche, and all knowledge is rooted in it
  - starts as philosophy, and becomes art
  - systematised body of knowledge
* IS questions and answers.
* Identify an adaptation that helps a predator obtain food, drink, and shelter.
* Includes areas such as biology, ecology, and environmental biology.
* Investigate and report on dolphins, whales, and other sea creatures.
* Most science affects human life
  - applies chemistry
  - derives from principles
  - evolves over decades
  - explains phenomena
  - focuses on science
* Most science has biodiversity
  - dimensions
* Most science includes chemistry
  - light
  - involves measurements
* Most science is based on the quantitative analysis of measured phe- nomena
  - designed to keep the United States competitive in a global economy
  - produced in networks of researchers collaborating across institutional boundaries
  - supported by biology
* Most science relates to investigations
  - scientific investigations
* Most science relies on concepts
  - results
  - requires scientists
  - shows chemical components
* Most science uses knowledge
  - medical knowledge
  - natural substances
  - theories
* Much science is realized through equipment that uses waves, light, sound and electromagnetic waves.
* Provides information from a variety of sources on all aspects of science.
* Some science combines geologies.
* Some science deals with abnormalities
  - atmospheres
  - basic chemistry
  - behaviour
  - classifications
  - climates
  - crust
  - designs
  - earth crust
  - heat
  - heredity
  - human behaviour
  - inheritances
  - liquids
  - mollusks
  - operations
  - plant vegetables
  - primates
  - psychoanalysis
  - structural designs
  - surgical operations
  - explains power
  - focuses on evolution
  - includes evolution
  - makes the claim that certain people are genetically structured to be homosexuals
  - prevents soil erosion
  - works in contexts
* Study the effects of temperature on water.
* Understands the diversity and unity that characterize life.
* affirms that the human species is an emergence from natural evolutionary forces.
* affords a means of predicting the future, from the observation of past experience.
* aids preservation.
* aims to break things down, level by level by level.
* allows our knowledge of people to grow.
* also builds wealth - for countries, communities and individuals
  - can show how to bring the interest of the individual into harmony with that of society
  - has the power of verification by experiment to guide assertions back to reality
  - helps develop critical thinking skills
  - includes units on heat, light, sound, magnets, energy, chemical changes, and animals
  - says that yeast growth leads to greater fusel alcohol levels
  - shows that certain plants, such as clover, help the deer grow larger antlers
* always proceeds by being informed by cultural metaphors.
* analyzes, classifies and explains phenomena.
* appears to be incompatible with the femininity of women.
* are in the state of revolution
  - traditions of research which have developed in both time and space
  - unable to explain life
* assumes that nature is the same everywhere, and that it is understandable and predictable
  - reality is monistic, i.e., that there is only one kind of ultimate substance
  - the universe vast single system in which basic laws are consistent
* attaches great importance to the sun.
* attempts to describe and explain the natural and physical world
  - degrees of causal relationships
  - describe, predict, control, and explain phenomena
  - explain certain phenomena
* bases on truth.
* basic factor in conserving and protecting wildlife and habitat.
* becomes the work of the gods, is shunned or is enshrined as law or procedure.
* begins with observation of data, religion with religious experiences and sacred stories
* believes animals and plants are all just unconscious automatons.
* believes that all matter is based on the atom, the nucleus of which is frequency
  - it knows something about nature
* belongs completely to the domain of rationality
  - to all the people
* benefits from contributions.
* blend of logic and imagination.
* body of knowledge based on controlled experiments
  - knowledge, an intellectual discipline
* branch of study concerned with facts, principles, and methods.
* broad concept that can be approached and understood from a variety of perspectives.
* can accept that everything including time, space, laws and matter evolved out of nothing
  - be solitary and lack social interaction
  - consider only natural mechanisms as explanations for the natural world
  - derive meaningful analogies by comparing populations of objects or entities
  - either help society in an important way, or it can destroy society
* can explain how everything works physically in relation to everything else
  - natural phenomenon
  - figure out what produces consciousness
  - handle with skill and insight the evolution of form
  - include physics, chemistry, biology, etc
  - influence human life and shape our future in several direct and indirect ways
  - inspire greater reverence, wonder, and awe
  - investigate only the empirical, the natural world
* can make sense, both in ordinary language and in human terms
  - use of obvious facts, intuition, and analogies
* can never have more than a limited understanding of the world
  - know anything about what is outside the universe
  - only measure objective data
  - produce a numerical estimate of the probability that they exist based upon observations
  - purify religion from error and superstition
  - yield new and seemingly useful inventions, such as trans fats
* captivating field for anyone interested in observation, research, and learning.
* careful, analytic attempt to explain phenomena.
* challenges our minds to look beyond and to discover new things.
* claims that radioactive isotopes decay is an uncaused event.
* claims to know truths and discover reality
  - provide a system for finding out what is real
* classified and verifiable knowledge of facts concerning nature.
* classifies living things in an orderly system through which they can be readily identified.
* collection of particular theories about particular aspects of the world
  - the results of a search for facts about our physical reality
* combination of life, earth and physical science.
* combined effort of the senses and the intelligence.
* comes from the Latin scientia which means knowledge
  - word scienta, which means knowledge
* comes to life in laboratories
  - with narration, sound, video, and animation
* community effort, a common together of many.
* concerns itself with adaptations, and science itself is adaptation
  - particular areas of truths
  - the past, present, and future of human life
* confuses laws with observations.
* connects information to form patterns of cause and effect.
* consists in inquiring how to do things right
  - of strictly causal explanations of empirically established laws
* constructs models to represent an approximation of the actual processes.
* continues to confirm the relationship between the brain and the body
  - show that the mind and body are connected
  - support the role food plays in maintaining health
* cooperative endeavour, the work of many people helping and stimulating each other.
* cooperative, rather than a competitive, enterprise.
* covers the mental field of knowledge and religion the mental field of belief
  - sports of baseball, cycling, hockey and skateboarding
* create mathematics by translating physical ideas into mathematical questions and equations.
* creates technology and technology changes society.
* creation of politicians and greedy people who seek privilege.
* creative endeavor of the human mind.
* cultural pursuit, meaning that it is rooted in our western philosophical tradition.
* deals only with natural patterns and mechanisms.
* deals with abstract conception
  - cause and effect relationships based on the laws of nature
  - characteristics
  - evidence
  - improvement
  - possibility
  - prehistoric life
* deals with that which is observable and reproducible
  - subject to physical measurements and experimentation
  - things that are testable, observable, and demonstrable
* defines egg as a cell from which a living organism takes birth and grows
  - patterns that describe and predict behavior as personality type
  - pregnancy as implantation of a fertilized egg in the wall of the uterus
* demands evidence.
* demonstrates biological integrity
* depends on curiosity and the freedom to pursue that curiosity
  - the pursuit of information unfettered by politics
  - upon principles, and art upon practice
* describes how nature works and what is possible
  - our external world
* develops knowledge of plant and animal life cycles
  - theories based on what is observed
  - thinking, problem-solving, and lifelong learning skills
* dictionaries Glossaries and dictionaries for several scientific disciplines.
* different way of learning about the world
  - thinking about problems
* differential equation.
* differs from art in the same manner that knowledge differs from skill.
* discerns the laws of nature.
* discipline of knowledge which involves many aspects of human thought and endeavour
  - uncertainty
* discovery procedure, a methodology for finding truth and also falsehood.
* does play a role in art.
* drives technology as it addresses questions that demand more sophisticated instruments.
* dynamic and ongoing process of reexamination and seeking new information
  - evolving approximation of reality
  - process that requires more than mere acquisition and memorization of facts
  - subject, changing over time
* embodies a basic belief in the comprehensibility of the universe.
* emphasizes geology, living and non-living habitats, bones, and more.
* employs a logical and empirical methodology to understand the natural world.
* encompasses a wide variety of disciplines
  - virtually every aspect of our lives
* encourages all the children in the classroom to use the language and methods of science
  - students
* enhances performance.
* entails sound logic and the seeking of evidence to support beliefs.
* establishes guidelines.
* examines the science behind the most popular team and recreational sports.
* exists in the mind of man as an ideal reality
  - only when scientists can persuade one another of the validity of their theories
* explains all reality in terms of cause and effect relationships and sufficient reason
  - particular phenomenon in terms of universally valid laws
* explains the natural world in material, naturalistic ways using observation and measurement
  - using evidence from the natural world
* fascinating field of education, as that most scientists never quit learning themselves.
* filter of thinking based on clever and right thoughts.
* focuses on empirical phenomena
  - how science effects people and environment
  - the purely objective side of reality, leaving out human values
* framework built around observations in nature.
* generates knowledge to the benefit of the human being.
* gift economy of ideas.
* give useful information regarding the physical world.
* grows by the accretion of ideas
  - through many discrete bubbles of expanding knowledge
  - with time
* has a large role to play in defining and understanding sustainability
  - long and unsavory history of severely punishing innovation and new thinking
  - responsibility to society
  - role to play in decisions about food production
  - similar problem with the human brain
  - an impact on their lives, and they can have an impact on science as well
  - beauty
  - discovered that the observed is energy, the object is energy
  - for a long time tied smoking to a strong risk of lung cancer in BOTH males and females
  - high, ethical principles
  - it that they are attracted to carbon dioxide, so avoid heavy breathing
  - limitations
  - little to do with the theory of evolution
* has many Christian roots
  - branches
  - different areas of interest
  - disciplines, all interrelated
* has no explanation or theory for the origin of matter and energy
  - opinion about what is right and wrong
  - nothing to do with creationism
  - places
  - powerful influence in the real world
  - proof
  - sacred texts
* has the ability to be the catalyst for change
  - facts, the knowledge and the rules of nature
  - highest paid circulation of any scientific journal in the world
  - powerful indirect effect of improving human health and opportunity
  - wonderful ability of creating medicines that better people's living conditions
  - theories, religion has beliefs
  - to interact with daily life
  - treatments
  - yet to produce a conclusive study that shows homosexuality has a biological cause
* helps strip away superstition to the point that only the transcendental truths remain
  - teachers
  - techniques
  - train techniques
* high peak of intellectual integrity, fairness, and rationality.
* highly refined type of human experience, and an experiment controlled experience.
* holds adventures in the world of living things
  - the answers to all the questions of life
  - two main branches, each a mirror of the other
* human activity, and therefore subjective judgements are sometimes made.
* human endeavor involving successes and failures, trials and tribulations
  - to understand how nature works
  - endeavor, possibly the greatest one of all
  - endeavour to make sense of the world
  - enterprise which leads to knowledge of the natural world
  - invention, developed and refined within a specific cultural tradition
* imitating art and art imitating science are familiar to robotics.
* impacts every-day life.
* includes advanced work in earth, physical and life sciences
  - all areas of biological, physical, and earth science
  - concepts in astronomy, geology, chemistry, physics, biology, and mathematics
  - journals in natural sciences such as biology, chemistry, and physics
  - processes and a body of knowledge
  - the study of plants, animals, biology, physical science, chemistry, and physics
* incorporates principles.
* increasingly plays a major role in fueling the North Carolina economy.
* influences society.
* inquires about the physical world, the object of experience.
* invariably involves the participation of a community of workers in any given field.
* involves a pursuit of fascinating knowledge and can be found in every aspect of life
  - search for answers
  - building and sharing knowledge
  - constructing an understanding of how the natural world works
  - ethics as well as technology, economics as well as experiments
  - examinations
  - observation, testability, repeatability, and prediction
  - paradigms, puzzles, anomalies, discoveries and revolutions
* involves the building of models to explain phenomena occurring in nature
  - discovery of fundamental relationships that help explain the natural world
  - teaching of earth, life, and physical sciences
* is JUST a way of explaining how the universe works.
* is able to clone animals but cloning humans is forbidden
  - test whether species have the capacity to change
* is about algorithms
  - amazement and curiosity and beauty
  - asking questions
  - both exploration and explanation
  - comparison and contrast
  - creating new knowledge
  - discovering the natural
  - discovery, discovery requires participation and creativity
  - explanation and prediction
  - exploring our world and finding reasons for things
  - facts, religion is about supposition or superstition
  - having an organised route into a subject
  - knowledge and power
  - making predictions, often based on measuring some quantities
  - predictability, and the predictability derives from models
  - probing questions and searching for answers
  - problem-solving, asking questions and seeking answers
  - the pursuit of truth through rigorous, controlled experimentation
* is about understanding and about looking at underlying principles
  - the universe and everything in it
  - verifiable facts and it is also about the physical universe
  - academic journals
  - against the theory of evolution
* is all about asking questions and finding answers
  - questioning assumptions and testing theories
* is also a dialogue between mankind and Nature
  - way of life and an attitude to the universe
  - about discovery
  - an important part of our every day lives
  - of profound practical importance in modern society
* is also on the side of vegetarian foods
  - vegetarianism
* is also the currency that is used everywhere in the hierarchy of nations
  - foundation for all our work on infant nutrition
* is always a game played with statistics
  - theory and proof
  - ambivalent about the place of humans
  - an accumulation of knowledge built-up over generations
* is an active knowledge system in which new discoveries are made almost every day
  - process dependent upon curiosity, observations and investigations
  - activity of human societies
  - approach to learning
  - art and a discipline
* is an attempt to explain the natural world
  - interpret the facts of nature
  - reproducibly characterize that world in predictive ways
  - edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers
  - effort to understand how objects in nature function and interact with one another
  - element of astrology
  - enormously powerful engine of new knowledge
  - exact science
  - exploration for truth
  - imaginative adventure of the mind seeking truth in a world of mystery
  - immense array of measured but incomplete models of understanding
  - important driving force and multiplier for the information society
* is an important part of everyone's lives
  - our everyday lives, just like reading and math
  - the preschool child's day
  - process that relies on the use of scientific equipment
  - tool to make our lives better
  - indispensable tool for gaining knowledge about nature
  - information service about science
  - instrument of public health
  - integral part of culture
  - intellectual, a social and a practical activity which has developed over time
  - international enterprise that goes across borders, across races
  - investment in the public interest
* is an ongoing process that builds on itself
  - self-correcting way of knowing
  - search for information about the natural world
  - open self-critical system in which all theories and paradigms are subject to review
  - orderly, structured way of knowing
* is an organized relatively objective attempt to eliminate ignorance
  - search for patterns and regularities
  - analytic - it strives to understand nature, what is
* is as important as magic
  - intentional a process as has ever appeared on Earth
  - atheistic
  - away of learning about the natural world
  - based on Greek ideas that give nature the most omnipotent role in the universe
* is based on a hands-on approach to learning and discovering
  - mountain of fact but evolution is faith-based
  - communication
  - curiosity and and inquiry
  - fact and religion is based on faith
  - facts and observations
  - human values and is itself a value system
  - logic and examination of reality
  - logic, systematic data collection, experiments and statistical analysis
  - observable, repeatable truth
* is based on observation and experimentation
  - observation, measurement, computation, facts and data
  - rational thought
  - slow, plodding accumulation of bits of information
  - subjective observations
* is based on the denial of miracles
  - experience that nature gives intelligent answers to intelligent questions
  - trying to do everything with the outer experience of things
* is based upon controlled experiments and data analyses
  - finding the correct tools to measure the correct object
  - observation, experimentation, etc
  - watching things happen
  - basically the search of truth
  - belief in a supreme generalization
  - below the mind, spirituality is beyond the mind
* is both a body of knowledge and a process of discovery
  - process and a body of knowledge
  - facts and process
  - influences and is influenced by society
  - public and private
* is built on logical theories that appear to be true
  - upon an entire body of knowledge
* is by definition engaged in natural explanations
  - far the best approach to understand and explain the world
* is central to the success of chlorine-based products
  - world children are growing up in
  - certainly an important tributary to the ocean of human experience
  - characterized by a questioning of common sense and sentiment
  - concerned only with empirical relationships
* is concerned with physical reality
  - relating the present to the future
  - the structure of the universe as well as the structure of an atom
  - understanding the phenomena and laws of the universe
  - considered to have to do with truth
  - critiqued as epistemology for optimal health and human potential
  - dedicated to human development
* is deeply interwoven with society and changes along with society
  - society, and as it has changed, so too has science
  - dependent on communication - networks of patronage, training, exchange and information
  - described as what is observable, repeatable, and falsifiable
  - directed towards a progressively greater understanding of the natural world
  - distinguished from pure math in that it yields predictive information
  - divided into areas of study
  - done by the scientific method
* is driven by curiosity, and pure science advances without much input from society
  - data, by evidence
  - people's excitement about learning
  - essentially a dialogue conducted among people with a shared interest
  - exoteric, since it is public and accessible, in principle, to 'non-believers'
  - exploration and discovery
  - faith in doubt
  - feared when it begins to experiment with the more fundamental aspects of genetics
* is founded on reason and deduction and empirical study
  - the assumption that nature is amenable to human intelligence
  - truth, honesty, and confirmation of results
* is fundamentally a method of inquiry that is much broader in scope
  - social institution governed by power relationships
  - about pursuing new ideas and new ways of thinking
  - geared to thinking about the problem and alternative explanations
  - general rather than particular knowledge
  - hard to teach in schools
  - imbedded in the culture, society and philosophies in which it develops
* is important because of all the new technology which has improved many inventions and ideas
  - in our everyday lives
  - to every living cell
  - in their everyday lives
  - information about things and how they work
  - instrumental, a means harnessed to human goals
  - interdisciplinary in nature
* is interested in general laws
  - general, empirical relationships that are publicly verifiable
  - introduced when lecturing on the design and aerodynamics of automobiles
  - investigation, analysis, and the generation of new knowledge
  - involved in the study of the inventions and inventors
* is knowledge and religion is faith
  - science is freedom
* is knowledge of nature and of the effects of human intervention in nature
  - the physical world and nature
  - through causes therefore knowledge that is certain, universal and necessary
  - knowledge, truth and being close to the source of knowledge and truth
* is learned at home, in museums, in parks and on school visits
  - chiefly by the eye
  - through discussions about how food changes during the cooking process
  - like learning a new language, or exploring a new world
* is limited to dealing with observable, measurable, and repeatable phenomena
  - explaining the natural world by means of natural processes
  - proving what can be perceived with the senses
  - what can be known by rational thought backed up by verifiable observations
* is located in nanotechnologies
  - universities
* is made and funded by people
  - by people, commonly working in groups
  - magic that works
* is man's endeavor to interpret the facts of nature
  - thoughts that they believe to be fact
  - mankind's organized search for truth
  - mathematics applied to real world phenomena
  - matter, religion is spirit
  - meant to be a community of intellectuals, dedicated to a common goal
  - merely a description of the physical world
  - more a way of life or a philosophy than a job
* is more than a body of knowledge
  - specific knowledge
  - much more than a body of knowledge
  - necessary to deal with humans as created creatures with animal bodies
  - now the norm for running our lives, from health to the environment, even politics
  - objective, but human experience is subjective
* is often like that, it comes from chance encounters between individuals
  - sexist
* is one context for examining themselves, their ideas, and their lives
  - kind of knowledge and religion is another kind
  - method by which our species seeks to obtain knowledge
  - of many ways people have of trying to understand the world
* is one of the areas that have defined social and economic progress
  - crowning achievements of human intelligence
  - few areas in which the Soviet Union has operated more or less at world levels
  - most prestigious general scientific publications in the world
  - world's leading general science, peer-reviewed journals
  - worlds most prestigious scholarly journals
  - source and symbol for an imaginative, disciplined mind
* is one way of answering and explaining questions about the natural world
  - questions and explaining the natural world
  - knowing about the world
* is only about chemistry and physics
  - now re-discovering the healing substances found in essential oils
* is only one of several possible ways of interpreting experience
  - way of making sense out of the physical world
* is only the name for a human activity
  - work and findings of scientists
* is organized into content disciplines and is conducted in various institutions
  - five units in which inquiry and discovery are the focus
  - four units in which inquiry and discovery are the focus
* is organized knowledge and methods of investigation of the natural environment
  - systematized inquiry
* is part of life
  - scientific knowledge
  - partly about asking questions
  - perceived as being kept in the hands of scientist and away from a public understanding
  - persistant creativity, observation, critisism and self critisism
  - personal and political, affecting our daily lives and the future of our planet
  - philosophy, in a matter of speaking
  - practiced by people with directed interests
* is practiced in many ways besides direct observation and experimentation
  - precisely about empirically measuring and proving the objective world
* is presented as a story or a metaphor
  - the activity of an intellectual elite
  - pure inquiry into the unknown, using specific tools of rational thought
  - quite different from, say, history
  - regulated by values of two different kinds
  - related to technology as well
  - relative and subject to change as more knowledge is attained
  - responsible for the following knowledge about our origins
  - resticted by definition to utilizing natural laws to explain nature
  - restricted to the study of natural phenomena
  - said to be knowledge systematically arranged
* is science, and religion is religion
  - no matter what general topic is involved
* is seen as a random activity that has little meaning in real life
  - an integral part of daily life rather than belonging solely to the laboratory
  - the way to make our way to the best of all possible worlds
  - shared knowledge
* is simply a word to describe the likelihood of an idea being true
  - the logical process of figuring out how the world works
  - so successful because it explains material phenomena in material terms
* is something that can be done anywhere by anyone
  - proven and tested, and usually works the same way each time
  - explodes
  - spectral analysis
  - still a long way from understanding the complexities of the brain
  - study based upon observation
  - subjects
  - superior to ethics or politics
  - supposed to be a tool to learn something about reality
* is supposed to help advance society
  - make politics more orderly, more collaborative, and more rational
  - systematic in method because it seeks a system of prediction
  - systematized and formulated knowledge
  - taken to include the life sciences, physical sciences, social sciences, and mathematics
  - taught as an assembly of facts
  - television stations
  - tentative and denies an ultimate or perfect truth as claimed by scientific creationism
  - that which practical application of period technology
* is the accumulation of evidence to support belief
  - act of gathering knowledge by observation and experimentation
  - activity of seeking the truth
  - ancient art of calculation and interpretation of celestial phenomena
* is the art of observing carefully with an unbiased, non-prejudicial eye
  - understanding the universe
* is the basis for sound nutrition information
  - the design of technologies that solve real-world problems
* is the basis of technology and science depends on education and research
  - the advanced technology that affects our lives today in countless ways
  - belief in the ignorance of the experts
  - candle that lights the way
  - central shaper of secularism in our day
  - characteristic product of our culture
  - collection of all examples of science
  - definition of everything
  - development and systematization of positive knowledge about the physical universe
  - discoverer of the past
  - dominant intellectual force of our culture
  - dominering method used for explaining how nature works and how humans behave
  - driving force behind many of our environmental policies
  - embodiment of the objective and the impersonal
  - father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance
* is the first of sins, the germ of all sins, the original sin
  - sin, seed of all sin, the original sin
* is the foundation and the driving force behind all decisions and all actions
  - for understanding what's happening in our patients
  - of real religion
* is the frontier of human progress
  - things to come
  - gimmick of nonplussed contagion
  - glory as well as the terror of mankind
  - god of many people in our culture and the modern world
  - important key to unlock all the mysteries of our world
  - investigation and interpretation of the natural and physical world
* is the key to human betterment, individually and as a society
  - knowledge and it is the job of scientists to unlock the mysteries of life
* is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another
  - the dependence of facts upon one another
  - liberator of humanity
  - logical, systematic and empirical method of research and ordering of experiences
* is the means for solving the problem
  - of discovering truth
* is the most powerful agent of change and progress in human affairs
  - transforming force in today's world
* is the objective connection of precisely measured detail with sweeping abstract concepts
  - pursuit of reliable knowledge
  - observation, explanation, and prediction of real world phenomena
* is the only field to use metric measurements
  - way of knowledge that proceeds by trying to disprove itself
* is the organized search for knowledge
  - systematic pursuit of knowledge
  - paradigm for teaching according to the contemporary ideal of liberal education
  - pragmatic approach to philosophical theories on reality
  - primary causation of reality and theology is secondary
  - process by which people use systematic steps to organize their findings
* is the process of discoveringthe natural world
  - figuring out the way the world works
  - finding answers using logical, systematic processes and steps
  - gathering, interpreting, and testing information
  - used to develop better technology
* is the product of intelligence
  - left hemisphere function
  - professional journal of North American scientists
* is the pursuit of knowledge
  - the facts, wherever they lead-politics balance of interests
  - quest for objective truth
  - record of dead religions
  - religion of the multitudes and people look to it for salvation
  - search for neat, predictable curves, compact ways of summarizing the data
* is the search for truth and knowledge
  - made up of empirically verifiable facts
  - understanding of the empirical world
  - sheaf of facts
  - smaller circle within the larger circle of religion
  - state of knowing or having knowledge
  - struggle to find means to do that
  - study and theoretical explanation of natural phenomena in an orderly way
* is the study of natural truth
  - nature and life
  - physical truth
* is the study of the natural world as a way to understand cause and effect
  - world through experience and experiment
  - patterns and rules in the natural world
  - universe in an attempt to understand how it works
  - what really does happen in the world
  - stuff of everyday life
  - sum of the efforts to understand the natural world in a systematic, empirical manner
* is the systematic classification of experience
  - gathering, organizing, and dissemination of new knowledge
  - observation of natural phenomena
  - topography of ignorance
  - tree of death
  - ultimate legitimator of bourgeois ideology
  - underpinning of technological progress
  - vehicle they use for learning
* is the world's largest circulation general scientific periodical
  - to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing
* is unique among disciplines in the involvement of postdoctoral students in research
  - in the method it uses for figuring out which ideas are wrong
  - unlike faith in that it follows the evidence
* is used for astronomy
* is used to assemble knowledge which, in turn, is used to create goods
  - manipulate people and nature for profit
  - very much a human endeavor and relies on human qualities and habits of the mind
* is what happens when preconception meets verification
  - kids do every day
  - people understand well enough to explain to a computer
  - scientists do
  - where the cure for deadly diseases can be found and can be made
  - woven into the fabric of life
  - written in first person, active tense
* knows no borders, and research is enhanced when knowledge is widely shared.
* knows that sound travels through the universe for what they call infinity
  - the moon has a causal effect on the tides
* laboratory-based discipline.
* leads to knowledge, but being something is categorically distinct from knowing it
  - technology that impacts society in many ways
  - world-changing innovation and new technologies
* lends itself to real experiences in which children can participate.
* lifts the veil that says man was born of the flesh.
* likes to deal with facts.
* literally means knowledge.
* logical search for knowledge covering facts or the operation of general laws.
* magic wand that gives credibility and validity to a concept or a methodology.
* makes certain real basic assumptions about how the universe operates
  - major progress when the paradigms are changed
  - models of nature, models of our universe, and medicine
  - patterns from ideas
  - theories about the way the world is
  - use of mathematics, and it makes observations and experiments
* male construction that exists only to serve the interests of males.
* marvelous development in the history of human thought.
* means a method of thought
  - generating and using knowledge to solve problems
  - knowledge, and the essence of the scientific method is observation and repeatability
  - of gaining knowledge and understanding about the world
  - simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful
  - the study of nature and living things
  - to know about everything in the cosmos
* measures physical things.
* method for grasping knowledge, but knowledge is always incomplete
  - investigating the mechanisms of the universe
  - testing ideas to see if they work
* method of discovering the truth, religions claim to already have the truth
  - discovery and it can be applied to anything
  - inquiry based on logic and testable hypotheses
  - obtaining knowledge of the nature of the universe
  - reaching conclusions
  - seeking knowledge
  - or methods of inquiry
* methodical procedure for the exploring and understanding of nature.
* methodology and logical way of thinking verified through experimentation.
* methodology, a limited way of knowing about the natural world.
* needs math to measure things and to make sense of the world.
* never ending search for truth.
* never-ending process of discovery, interpretation, and evaluation
* now accepts that magnetic energy does have an effect upon electrical equipment
  - the idea that rocks can fall from outer space onto Earth
  - considers a blue moon to be the second full moon in one month
* now has a huge impact on sports around the globe
  - the ability to clone human beings
* now knows dogs directly evolved from the wolf, through a process known as neoteny
  - that alcohol causes birth defects
* observes the material world, but religion sees the mental, nonmaterial.
* often advances in leaps and bounds when measurement devices improve
  - with the introduction of new technologies
* often deals with very large or very small numbers
  - tangible aspects of reality
  - learns more from mistakes than from successes
  - spends decades proving what the human heart already knows
  - works by eliminating other possibilities
* only deals with repeating occurances in the present
  - measures things
  - tries to make models of reality that have predictive power
* opens up the realm of the concrete and philosophy opens the realm of the abstract.
* operates on a system of evidence and proof, while religion consists of blind faith
  - induction
* part of life - every day.
* part of our daily lives
  - everyday lives, like reading and math
* particular kind of human experience
  - set of configurations of language, experience, and desire
  - way of studying and knowing the world
* pervades a broad spectrum of workplaces.
* places great faith in the evidence of the senses.
* plays a central role in our cultural, political and economic life
  - an important role in the resolution of environment and energy issues
* points to the universe as a created universe.
* popularity contest among competing ideas.
* powerful way of looking at the world.
* presently describes the universe as winding down toward decay and disorder.
* problem solving activity carried out within a community of scholars.
* proceeds in time by an alternation of theory and experiment
  - only with the communication of ideas
* process by which our beliefs are ultimately demonstrated true or false.
* process for answering our questions about the natural world
  - producing knowledge
* process of change
  - discovery about things that can be measured
  - inquiry involving hypothesis and deduction
  - investigation, the testing of hypotheses and pursuing questions that remain
  - observation and discovery
  - systematically observing the world and making conclusions based on data
  - usines observations to test ideas
  - that seems to be given lip-service and then forgotten
  - used to obtain knowledge based upon observable evidence
  - whereby aspects of a problem are discovered
* process, a means of testing ideas to see whether they match observed reality
  - and a work in progress
  - or an activity, rather than a discrete entity
* proclaims that our present reality is dependent on the relationship between space and time.
* produces accurate facts, scientific laws and theories.
* produces ideas about how and why the world functions the way it does
  - that spawn new technologies and other applications of knowledge
* product of man's wisdom, and is often wrong.
* progresses by the gradual accumulation of data.
* provides a knowledge for understanding the world
  - important information and tools for effective stewardship of created things
  - molecular techniques
* provides new molecular techniques
  - strong evidence
* provides the basis of modern technology that improves the living standard of human beings
  - knowledge that engineers use to create tools
  - ways to judge and discard unfounded ideas
  - writers with a repertoire of verbs to explain the universe
* pursues the knowledge of the universe, it seeks a understanding of ALL natural phenomena.
* pursuit of the truth.
* raises ethical issues
* rapidly changing field.
* rather compact and culture-independent body of knowledge.
* recognizes types.
* refinement of everyday thinking.
  - empirical evidence
  - experimental and observational facts of nature
  - human qualities, such as reasoning, insight, energy, skill and creativity
  - observations of the natural world
  - repeated observations to confirm natural phenomena
  - the testimony of the senses
* remains at the heart of modern psychology.
* replaces magic in the world
  - the divine, eternal laws described by Aquinas with natural, physical laws
* represents an investment in organized knowledge for society and the economy.
* requires a grid of clean transport in order to function as a universal system of knowledge
  - different abilities, human qualities, and habits of the mind
  - good observation skills
  - specific theories and laws that can be used to predict
* rests on evidence.
* reveals misconception.
* say there are trees in other plants than earth.
* says that a fetus person from the moment of conception
  - once the earth was all one land
  - the electron waves on earth collapse because the entire universe is looking
* says, as per the First Law of Thermodynamics, that nothing is being created today.
  - universal naturalistic laws
* seeks to attain knowledge of objects in their universality
  - break down and explain specific parts
  - explain the physical realities of the natural world
  - explain, understand or reveal
  - overcome transitoriness by finding natural laws or eternal norms
  - predict and explain natural phenomena
* seeks to understand and technology seeks to design a human solution
  - the universe through rationality, reason, and skepticism
* seems to be the most venerated contemporary category of knowledge structures
  - have governing laws, such as the law of gravity
* sees itself as the answer to all questions.
* self-correcting body of knowledge
* series of approximations
  - planned, controlled observations
* set of activities that helps kids explore their place in space.
  - how nothing supernatural is required to explain anything in the universe
* shows that soils high with fungi contains lower populations of nematodes
  - the goodness of dairy plays a big role in disease prevention
  - underlie unity
* social affair in the sense that everybody interacts, and it's a universal thing
  - practice that influences and is influenced by developments in many disciplines
  - product produced by a community of scientists
* solves problems.
* speaks of energy in both potential and kinetic states.
* special kind of human experience, for there is an intent to learn more about the world.
* starts with observations.
* strives to describe the world as accurately as possible, and everyone's help is needed.
* structured art more functional than any fine art
* studies chemistry
  - decomposition
* studies the material world
  - physical aspects of the world, the geological, biological, and astronomical
* sub-set of knowledge.
* subject in constant motion and constant change
  - that touches every part of everyone's life
* subsists on the exchange of information.
* supports conclusions
* system by which imperfect beings can test and refine their understanding of the world
  - or method to understand something
* systematic and logical approach to discovering how things in the universe work
  - method for developing testable explanations of observed phenomena
* systematic process of inquiry about natural phenomena
  - to find out about our world and the universe
  - study of facts
  - way of knowing how the world works
* systematized, paged index to the successive sense impressions.
* teaches that everything is vibrating, including matter which includes the physical body
  - health and disease are but a continuum
  - the children of today that nature is made of atoms
* technical term.
* tends to be driven by simple curiosity, and by the desire of some scientist to do it first
  - exclude things that aren t science
  - pride itself on themes of universality
  - snub sunspots and cycles
* thinks that mathematics is what's the hidden, underlying expression of the reality.
* thus becomes the means of controlling nature for the material benefit of humankind
  - stands as the paradigm for any and all socially useful forms of knowledge
* tool created by man and is less than man
  - designed to illuminate the latter domain
* tool for improving our lives and one of the keys to a successful future
  - understanding our world
  - like philosophy
* tree that bears good and bad fruit.
* tries to document the factual character of the natural world
  - explain nature, but to achieve precision, nature has to be abstracted
* truth-seeking process.
* understands the mechanisms of sight and the psychophysics of visual perception.
* unique way of knowing about the world
* uses a standardized, universal nomenclature using latinized names
  - technical vocabulary to describe phenomena
  - variety of materials to teach life, physical and earth sciences
  - art as a stepping stone to see if it can be seen as reality
  - empirical methods as it is based on experience
  - logic as one means of evaluating theory
  - mathematics, but it is also very different from mathematics
* uses natural causes to explain natural phenomena
* usually depends on repeating experiments and getting the same results.
* values the power of theory for explaining and predicting.
* vehicle by which humans contribute to the understanding of the universe.
* very broad collection of disciplines
  - human form of knowledge
  - important way for coming to know things
  - interrelated field, and many concepts can be related to more than one concept
* voyage of exploration into the unknown.
* way of answering questions
  - asking and answering questions
  - discovering the world
* way of knowing and doing, the heart of which is inquiry
  - as well as a body of known information
  - the facts, laws and nature of things through material-experiments
  - knowing, and a tool
  - how nature functions
  - life, a craft handed down from masters to apprentices
* way of looking at and thinking about the natural world in an attempt to understand it
  - obtaining knowledge by means of objective evaluations
* way of thinking much more than it body of knowledge
  - that includes the observation, collection and manipulation of data
  - thinking, a way of understanding the world
  - to know about things
* western way of knowing the world, and it is perhaps the west's greatest contribution.
* willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.
* works on the border between the known and the unknown, pushing back the tide of mystery.
* works to make everything relative
  - tap the minds of the dead
  - with concepts
* world view that measures our 'reality'.
* worldwide community.
+ Inch, Usage: Units of length :: Imperial units
  * In the United States, height is always in feet and inches. Science is the only field to use metric measurements.
  * Science' is what we do to find out about the natural world. It is the total of physics, chemistry, biology, geology and astronomy. Science makes use of mathematics, and it makes observations and experiments. Science produces accurate facts, scientific laws and theories. Wilson, Edward O. 1998. The Oxford companion to the history of modern science'. Oxford University Press, vii. Science' also refers to the large amount of knowledge that has been found using this process.
+ Pseudoscience, Differences between pseudoscience and science
  * Pseudoscientific ideas are not based on facts. Science is based on facts and observations.
+ Science, Other features of science:
  * Science makes models of nature, models of our universe, and medicine. There are many different sciences with their own names. Science is a process, not just the facts and rules believed at one time.
+ Scientific theory
  * To be a scientific theory, a theory must be tested a large number of times, by many different scientists in many different places, and must pass the test every time. It must be stated exactly, often using mathematics. And it must fit in with all of the other scientific theories. Science has many branches. Physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy are some of the major branches of science. A scientific theory in one branch of science must hold true in all of the other branches of science. For example, the atomic theory of matter, that all matter is made up of atoms, was discovered using physics, but the chemicals used in chemistry, the living tissue used in biology, the rocks studied in geology, and the planets studied in astronomy are all made up of atoms. The atomic theory of matter holds in every area of science.