• Question: how would you define science in a sentence?

    Asked by liish to Louise, Daniel, Jon, Sharon, Zoe on 17 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by livster222.
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      Louise Dash answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Science is the collection of methods and techniques we use to logically turn the observations we make about our universe into testable/provable theories.

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      Jon Copley answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      I’d have to quote Richard Feynman, a famous physicist, for this: “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts”.

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      Sharon Sneddon answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      thats very hard, I’m going to say…

      Science is the discovery of new knowledge based on facts and principles.

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      Zoe Duck answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      Analysing the available evidence to reach the best conclusion.

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      Daniel Richardson answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      understanding the world observing it, playing with it a bit, and making better and better theories.

      [ Bizarrely this is a revolutionary idea. Plato, the most famous greek philosopher, said that in order to understand the stars, the last thing you should do is look up into the sky. You should just sit and think about what they should look like in a perfect universe. Christian thought in europe followed similar lines, arguing that it was a waste of time to observe the world or speculate about it, it is simply what God wants it to be. It was only about 400 years ago that we started to systematically observe, experiment and learn about the universe ]

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