what are the charactiristics of science?
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relatedness, embeddedness, coordinating principle, correspondence, scientific parsimony, complementarity, and continuity.
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Science is a method involving making assumptions and proving them right or wrong based upon the gathering of data.\nScientists are people who use this method to understand the physical universe and discover new information which can be used by others.\nScience itself has improved nothing.  Scientists have developed many things which help us in our day to day lives.  You do not need me to make this list.
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Science is field of study that attempts to describe the universe (or some part of it) in terms of observable patterns, and to formulate rules from those patterns that have a predictive value.\n\nTechnology is the name given to the useful (and sometimes not so useful) products developed as a result of scientific endeavour.
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empirical and historical\n\n"However, there are two forms of science: empirical and historical. The first involves repeatability in the lab, the second involves interpreting sequences of events. Scientists cannot empirically test every aspect of Einstein's theories but they can establish their validity through observations of nature. ID fits this definition. Darwinian evolution is considered science but much of that theory cannot be repeated/demonstrated in the lab."
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"Science is anything that can be written down recorded and set a data."\n\nHere's a tip for you: Whenever you need to redefine a word to prove a point, you are WRONG. Redefining the word does NOT make you correct, it shows everyone with half a brain how wrong you are, and that you know yourself that you're wrong, right off the bat.
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Richard Feynman (the greatest scientist ever) believed that science is best defined as the belief that "...observation is the ultimate and final judge of the truth of an idea."  The scientific method isn't strictly followed in science (you won't find physicists going step by step through some list).  In my opinion, the scientific method is best explained by teaching that scientists test the truth of ideas by looking at the world (through experiments) rather than judging it based on authority or elegance.
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"The success of science has more to do with an attitude common to scientists than with a particular method. This attitude is one of inquiry, experimentation, and humility before the facts." - Paul G. Hewitt, Conceptual Physics, Second Edition, p. 3\n \nSo scientific attutudes are,\nBeing always curious\nBeing always ready to undertake impossible task\nBe Positive attitude\nHard work\nand Strong will power\n\nCheers!!!
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The definition I prefer to use is this:\n\nThe scientific method is the exercise of specific philosophy of deduction.  An analysis is considered scientific if the following steps are performed...\n1) a theory is developed, which makes testable predictions.  A prediction is only testable if it proposes that some possible outcome of the test would prove the theory to be *wrong*.  If you can't prove the theory wrong, it's not scientific.  There's no such thing in science as proving a theory "right".\n2) the scientist now tries to prove that (s)he is wrong.  There's no way to prove the theory right, so all they can do is try to prove that the theory is wrong.\n3) if (s)he fails to prove that the theory is wrong, (s)he shares the idea with other scientists, and they try to prove it wrong.\n\nIt's more of a philosophical approach to deduction than a recipe of steps.  If a theory can't be disproven, it's not scientific (that doesn't mean it's wrong, it just means that science has no bearing on the theory).  The result of performing science is simply a collection of theories that nobody has yet disproven.\n\nAn example of a scientific theory is: "there is a leprechaun wearing a yellow tie standing behind me".  This is the theory.  There is a testable prediction, that if I look behind myself, and I see no leprechaun, then the theory is wrong.  If I see something which resembles a leprechaun, well, I have to do more tests.  But, the first thing the scientist does is looks for the leprechaun.  In my case, the leprechaun is not there, the theory fails, and I discard it.\n\nA non-scientific theory would be "There is an invisible, intangible, unmeasurable leprechaun standing behind me.  It can neither influence nor be influenced by anything I can see or do."  Well, there's no way to prove this is wrong, so this is not a scientific theory.  There may be such a leprechaun behind me, but science can't offer any opinion on the question.
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science from the Latin, scire, to know, is a body of knowledge that is constructed via observation, hypothesis, experimentation, and logic for the purpose of explaining and predicting events or behavior.\n Observation, experimentation and critical reasoning all play crucial roles in the advancement of scientific knowledge..........
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whew, all this hostility! what did we ever do to you besides offer useful information and cures for disease?\n\nscientists are out there to discover how the world works, to the benefit of the residents of this planet.\n\nwe're not out to tell people what to believe, we're not out to disprove anyone's personal convictions. we don't threaten people with hellfire and damnation because of their career choice. (funny, i know tons of religious people who ARE out to do just those things...) \n\nwe're here to find out how things work. we're out there finding out how the body works, what happened a long time ago, how the patterns of the world's climates are changing; we're discovering new species of animals, learning more about the solar system, and much much more.\n\nwe're not gods. we never claimed to be. we never will.
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Scientific method refers to a body of techniques for the investigation of phenomena and the acquisition of new knowledge of the natural world, as well as the correction and integration of previous knowledge, based on observable, empirical, measurable evidence, and subject to laws of reasoning.
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Visit this page http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Science/Scients.htm ... I believe it has a complete list of all the scientific men and women you might be looking for. I just want to help you out.
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Science (from Latin scientifko - knowledge)
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How can man ever be at the service of science?!\nYou can't serve what is abstract.\nScience is not a being which wields mankind in order to achieve it's purpose; it has neither aspiration nor desire so how can it?\nYou can only serve what is concrete and existant.\nScience can do nothing apart from being at the service of man. In which case in answer to your question would be for mankind to allow science to serve him/her.
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Steps of the scientific method\n\n1.  Name the problem or question\n\n2.  Form an educated guess (hypothesis)\n     of the cause of the problem and make\n     predictions based upon the hypothesis\n\n 3.  Test your hypothesis by doing an\n     experiment or study (with proper controls)\n\n 4.  Check and interpret your results\n\n 5.  Report your results to the scientific\n     community
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The nature of science is to always question everything.  It isn't so much proving ideas right than proving them wrong.
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Evolutionist=Real.\n\nEvolution=fake.