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Science and Technology

Science involves systematically gathering knowledge about nature through careful observation, experimentation, and measurement. This knowledge is organized into testable laws and theories using the scientific method. Technology refers to practical skills, arts, and applied sciences, as well as any systems that enable these. The distinction between science and technology is not always clear, as technology is often a consequence of scientific discoveries, though technology as a human activity predates science and engineering. Scientists and engineers can both be considered technologists when applying scientific knowledge to develop new tools and machines.

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Science and Technology

Science involves systematically gathering knowledge about nature through careful observation, experimentation, and measurement. This knowledge is organized into testable laws and theories using the scientific method. Technology refers to practical skills, arts, and applied sciences, as well as any systems that enable these. The distinction between science and technology is not always clear, as technology is often a consequence of scientific discoveries, though technology as a human activity predates science and engineering. Scientists and engineers can both be considered technologists when applying scientific knowledge to develop new tools and machines.

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Science is a systematic enterprise of gathering knowledge about nature and organizing

and condensing that knowledge into testable laws and theories. As knowledge has
increased, some methods have proved more reliable than others, and today the scientific
method is the standard for science. It includes the use of careful observation,
experimentation, measurement, mathematics, and replication — to be considered a
science, a body of knowledge must stand up to repeated testing by independent observers.
The use of the scientific method to make new discoveries is called scientific research, and
the people who carry out this research are called scientists

Technology is a term referring to whatever can be said at any particular historical period,
concerning the state of the art in the whole general field of practical know-how and tool
use. It therefore encompasses all that can be said about arts, crafts, professions, applied
sciences, and skills. By extension it can also refer to any systems or methods of
organization which enable such technologies, any field of study which concerns them, or
any products which result. The etymology of the word technology still reflects the
modern meaning, coming from the Greek technología an 'art', 'skill' or 'craft' and, the
study of something, or the branch of knowledge of a discipline. The term can either be
applied generally or to specific areas: examples include "construction technology", and
"medical technology"

The distinction between science and technology is not always clear. Science is the
reasoned investigation or study of phenomena, aimed at discovering enduring principles
among elements of the phenomenal world by employing formal techniques such as the
scientific method. Technologies are not usually exclusively products of science, because
they have to satisfy requirements such as utility, usability and safety.]

Technology is often a consequence of science and engineering , although technology as a


human activity precedes the two fields. For example, science might study the flow of
electrons in electrical conductors, by using already-existing tools and knowledge. This
new-found knowledge may then be used by engineers to create new tools and machines,
such as semiconductors, computers, and other forms of advanced technology. In this
sense, scientists and engineers may both be considered technologists; the three fields are
often considered as one for the purposes of research and reference.

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