Essay On Science

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Know Science:

Science (from Latin: scientia meaning "knowledge") is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the world. An older and closely related meaning still in use today is that of Aristotle, for whom scientific knowledge was a body of reliable knowledge that can be logically and rationally explained 

Since classical antiquity science as a type of knowledge was closely linked to philosophy. In the early modern era the two words, "science" and "philosophy", were sometimes used interchangeably in the English language. By the 17th century, "natural philosophy" (which is today called "natural science") had begun to be considered separately from "philosophy" in general. However, "science" continued to be used in a broad sense denoting reliable knowledge about a topic, in the same way it is still used in modern terms such as library science or political science.

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We live in the age of science. Science has brought about a lot of changes in the life of man. It is due to science that man is leading a comfortable and secured life life.artificialsatellites, television, computers, robbots, aeroplanesect.are all the gifts of science. Most of the things we use in our life are the result of the inventions of science.

Due to science the world has become smaller. Time and distance have been overpowered by science. We can reach distant places in a few hours. Even our domestic life has been changed by science, now we cook our food on gas stoves. Man has achieved great success by conquering space .Man has landed on moon. In developed countries most of the domestic work is done by robot. Computer is the latest achievement of our scientists.

In medical field also science has brought many changes. X ray machines and other gadgets help the doctors in revealing the inner portion of the body. Science is being applied in the agricultural fields. Tractors have taken the place of traditional bullocks and plough. Through science we do not feel heat in summer and cold in winter. It has changed our social life also. We can talk to our friends and relatives who are at a distance of thousand kilometers.

Electricity is now used in place of coal; new dams are being built to control the flood water. Chemicals are being used in fields. It can convert a desert into a fertile land. But science has also produced deadly weapons for mankind and therefore there is always fear of world war. On the whole science has been beneficial to mankind.

"Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks: but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house" (Henri Poincare). 

Although bricks are the basic essentials of constructing a house, a house is not purely made out of bricks.   Through simply stacking bricks on top of each other will not lead to a house.   Without a proper foundation and something to stick the bricks together, it is likely that the house will collapse.   In accordance with Poincare’s statement, science is quite similar to the idea of a house.   With only the knowledge of facts and formulas, and no connections in between them, they are quite useless.   This metaphor applies to other areas of knowledge, such as the arts, as well.   A painting is built of strokes; a song is built of notes, but without the “cement” to connect the strokes and notes,