Posted on January 26th, 2012 by Prashant

Science & Technology

Promoting Science seeks to promote scientific intellect among all those who have a fascination for science. We have broadly categorized science into four main sections viz Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science. Please visit the respective sections for an overview.

What is Science

The word science comes from the Latin "scientia," meaning knowledge.

Science uses unconfounded empirical tests to develop, discover, and explain systematic frameworks within which relationships can be explored

Science is a knowledge generating activity which is based on systematically organized bodies of accumulated knowledge obtained through objective observations.

Science is not so much concerned with accumulating highly precise and specific data (although it is necessary) but rather science seeks to discoverChapter 2 - CF 6 uniformities and to formulate statements of uniformities and consistencies of relationship between natural phenomena.

Science is to understand, explain, and predict by specifying the systematic relationships among empirical variables. It must be consensually valid and general. It must not be on authority, sloppy, or simply to “better” mankind.

Goals of Science

A. Research to Understand (pure research)
B. Research to Solve a Particular Problem (applied research)
C. Dispensing Solutions (practitioner / technologist)

The Unsolved Mysteries Of Science

Given below is a list of mysteries that have puzzled mankind since the beginning of time:

Motivations Driving Science

A scientist is curious. They ask the question “why.” They want to know why things work the way they do and nothing less than the truth will do for an answer. Their goal is to minimize the mysteries in the universe by obtaining knowledge through direct observation of particular aspects of the universe.
Scientists work very hard at unraveling the universe by using known and accepted principles. For example beginning with the theory that matter does not disappear, a scientist may try to unravel a performance of a magician. Demonstrating exactly how the trick worked with known and accepted principles of physics would prove the scientist an expert puzzle solver. Alternatively starting with the assumption that people are dying as the result of some disease organism, a scientist can set out to solve the puzzle of just how they are dying and what will stop it. “The challenge is to succeed in solving a puzzle that no one before has solved nor solved so well.” As with all challenges “the puzzle must be difficult enough to prove one an expert puzzle solver, but still be solvable.”
In a way therefore, science can be seen as a game or as puzzle solving in that it has rules and it is intrinsically fun. That is not to say however that it is messing around nor that it is not laborious. “For the scientist who plays the game for understanding rather than practical advantages, it is a game whose chief delights are the addition of one neatly contrived stroke that helps give form to a picture. A game affording a glimpse of what no one has conceived before. A game from which may come the ecstasy of bringing order out of chaos.”
In this regard the goals of science can be recalled. Basic research is the attempt to solve the puzzle of nature.