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Science: Latin Knowledge Universe

Science refers to a systematic process of building and organizing knowledge through testable explanations and predictions about the universe. It has historically been closely linked to philosophy but is now considered a separate branch focused on studying natural phenomena through observation and experimentation using the scientific method. The term "science" has evolved over centuries to increasingly refer to both a body of knowledge as well as a methodology of obtaining knowledge about the natural world through empirical evidence and reasoning.

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Science: Latin Knowledge Universe

Science refers to a systematic process of building and organizing knowledge through testable explanations and predictions about the universe. It has historically been closely linked to philosophy but is now considered a separate branch focused on studying natural phenomena through observation and experimentation using the scientific method. The term "science" has evolved over centuries to increasingly refer to both a body of knowledge as well as a methodology of obtaining knowledge about the natural world through empirical evidence and reasoning.

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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] 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. Since classical antiquity, science as a type of knowledge has been closely linked to philosophy. In the early modern period the words "science" and "philosophy of nature" were sometimes used interchangeably.[4] By the 17th century, natural philosophy (which is today called "natural science") was considered a separate branch of philosophy.[5] 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.[6] In the 17th and 18th centuries scientists increasingly sought to formulate knowledge in terms of laws of nature such as Newton'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 knowled

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