Lesson Proper/ ContentWhen you took your science in high school, is it interesting? For some students it is interesting but for some it is boring especially for those scientific words that are hard to remember. In order for you to appreciate the physical and biological world, you need to understand what science is. How do you define science?Science came from the Latin word scientia, meaning "knowledge". How do we define science? According to Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, the definition of science is "knowledge attained through learning or practice," or "knowledge covering general truths of the process of general laws, especially as obtained and tested through scientific method concerned with the physical world." What does that really mean? Science refers to a systematic way of acquiring knowledge about the world. This system uses observation and experimentation to describe and give details of natural phenomena. The term science also refers to the organized body of knowledge people have achieved using that system. Fields of ScienceTwo major lines:
The information below is just a partial listing of some of the different possible fields of study within science. Many of the fields listed here overlap to some extent with one or more other areas. A. Biological Sciences (Biology) |
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