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Science (From: Laws of Nature

Science is a systematic process of building and organizing knowledge through testable explanations and predictions about the universe. In classical antiquity, science was closely tied to philosophy, but during the Islamic Golden Age the scientific method was established, emphasizing experimentation and reproducibility. It was not until the 17th century that natural science was considered a separate field from philosophy in Western thought. Today, science most commonly refers to pursuing knowledge through the scientific method, especially knowledge of the material world explained through natural laws. In the 19th century, the term "scientist" was created to distinguish those studying nature from other fields of knowledge. Science continues to be used broadly to represent reliable and teachable knowledge on various topics.

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Science (From: Laws of Nature

Science is a systematic process of building and organizing knowledge through testable explanations and predictions about the universe. In classical antiquity, science was closely tied to philosophy, but during the Islamic Golden Age the scientific method was established, emphasizing experimentation and reproducibility. It was not until the 17th century that natural science was considered a separate field from philosophy in Western thought. Today, science most commonly refers to pursuing knowledge through the scientific method, especially knowledge of the material world explained through natural laws. In the 19th century, the term "scientist" was created to distinguish those studying nature from other fields of knowledge. Science continues to be used broadly to represent reliable and teachable knowledge on various topics.

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Science (from Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge"[1]) is a systematic enterprise that builds and

organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.[2][3][4] In
an older and closely related meaning, "science" also refers to a body of knowledge itself, of the type
that can be rationally explained and reliably applied. A practitioner of science is known as a scientist.
In classical antiquity, science as a type of knowledge was closely linked to philosophy. During
the Islamic Golden Age, the foundation for the scientific method was laid, which emphasized
experimental data and reproducibility of its results.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] In the West during the early modern
period the words "science" and "philosophy of nature" were sometimes used interchangeably,[13] And
not until the 17th century, natural philosophy (which is today called "natural science") was
considered a separate branch of philosophyin the West.[14]
In modern usage, "science" most often refers to a way of pursuing knowledge, not only the
knowledge itself. It is also often restricted to those branches of study that seek to explain the
phenomena of the material universe.[15] In the 17th and 18th centuries scientists increasingly sought
to formulate knowledge in terms of laws of nature such asNewton's laws of motion. And over the
course of the 19th century, the word "science" became increasingly associated with the scientific
method itself, as a disciplined way to study the natural world,
including physics, chemistry, geology and biology. It is in the 19th century also that the
term scientist was created by the naturalist-theologian William Whewell to distinguish those who
sought knowledge on nature from those who sought other types of knowledge.[16]
However, "science" has also continued to be used in a broad sense to denote reliable and teachable
knowledge about a topic, as reflected in modern terms like library science orcomputer science. This
is also reflected in the names of some areas of academic study such as "social science" or "political
science".

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