Science

What does Science mean?

• a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of
facts or truths systematically arranged and showing
the operation of general laws: the mathematical
sciences.
• 2. systematic knowledge of the physical or material
world gained through observation and
experimentation.
• 3. any of the branches of natural or physical science.
• 4. systematized knowledge in general.
• 5. knowledge, as of facts or principles; knowledge
gained by systematic study.
 Meaning of Science
• Science (from Latin scientia, meaning
"knowledge") is a systematic enterprise that
builds and organizes knowledge, meaning
"knowledge") is a systematic enterprise that
builds and organizes knowledge in the form of
testable explanations, meaning "knowledge")
is a systematic enterprise that builds and
organizes knowledge in the form of testable
explanations and predictions, meaning
"knowledge") is a systematic enterprise that
 Defining Science
• The word science comes from the Latin "scientia," meaning
knowledge.
• How do we define science? According to Webster's New
Collegiate Dictionary, the definition of science is "knowledge
attained through study or practice," or "knowledge covering
general truths of the operation of general laws, esp. as obtained
and tested through scientific method [and] concerned with the
physical world."
• What does that really mean? Science refers to a system of
acquiring knowledge. This system uses observation and
experimentation to describe and explain natural phenomena.
The term science also refers to the organized body of
knowledge people have gained using that system. Less formally,
the word science often describes any systematic field of study
or the knowledge gained from it.
The Scientist
 Definition
• According to Einstein and Enfield,
• “Science is the dramatic
conflict between ideas and
reality and our attempts to
understand them”.
 Nature of Science
• Observation
• Experimentation
• Verification
• Measurement
• Empirical
• Analytical
• Rational
 Observation
• an act or instance of noticing or perceiving.
• an act or instance of regarding attentively or
watching.
• the faculty or habit of observing or noticing.
• notice: to escape a person's observation.
• an act or instance of viewing or noting a fact
or occurrence for some scientific or other
special purpose: the observation of blood
pressure under stress.
Observation
 Types of Observation

• Participant
• Non-Participant
• Experiences and examples of
observation from social
sciences