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Science (From: Laws of Nature

Science is a systematic way of building and organizing knowledge through testable explanations and predictions about the universe. It is typically organized through universities, colleges, or research institutes, and is subdivided into natural sciences, social sciences, and formal sciences. Throughout history, science was more closely linked to philosophy but increasingly sought to formulate knowledge through laws of nature using the scientific method, a structured way to study the natural world.

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Science (From: Laws of Nature

Science is a systematic way of building and organizing knowledge through testable explanations and predictions about the universe. It is typically organized through universities, colleges, or research institutes, and is subdivided into natural sciences, social sciences, and formal sciences. Throughout history, science was more closely linked to philosophy but increasingly sought to formulate knowledge through laws of nature using the scientific method, a structured way to study the natural world.

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Science (from Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge")[2][3]:58 is a systematic enterprise that

builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about
the universe.[a]
Science is related to research, and is normally organized by a university, a college or a research
institute. Contemporary science is typically subdivided into the natural scienceswhich study
the material world, the social sciences which study people and societies, and the formal sciences like
mathematics. The formal sciences are often excluded as they do not depend
on empirical observations.[4] Disciplines which use science like engineering and medicine may
also be considered to be applied sciences.[5]
From classical antiquity through the 19th century, science as a type of knowledge was more
closely linked to philosophy than it is now and, in fact, in the West the term "natural philosophy"
encompassed fields of study that are today associated with science such
as physics, astronomy, medicine, among many others.[6]:3[b] In the 17th and 18th centuries
scientists increasingly sought to formulate knowledge in terms of laws of nature. As a slow
process over centuries, the word "science" became increasingly associated with what is today
known as the scientific method, a structured way to study the natural world.[7][8]

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