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ScienceWeek (4779 words) |
 | A purely chronological history of science and a purely formal philosophy of science thus have the same deficiency: each of them neglects to place the scientific ideas which are in question into their intellectual environment, so as to show what, in that particular context, gave these ideas and investigations their merit. |
| Likewise for the philosopher of science: some novel theories deserve to survive at the expense of their rivals and predecessors; and the philosopher must analyse the standards by which such scientific variants are judged and found worthy or wanting. |
| For progress can be made in science only if men apply their intellects critically to the problems which arise in their own times, in the light of the evidence and the ideas which are then open to consideration. |
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SCIENCE - LoveToKnow Article on SCIENCE (10190 words) |
| For our purpose, science may be defined as ordered knowledge of natural phenomena and of the relations between them; thus it is a short term for natural science, and as such is used here technically in conformity with a general modern convention. |
| The beginnings of physical science are to be sought in the slow and unconscious, observation by primitive races of men of natural occurrences, such as the apparent movements of the heavenly bodies, and in the gradually The acquired mastery over the rude implements by the of scieirce. |
| Besides the broad distinction into physical and biological science, minute subdivisions arose, and, at a certain stage of development, much attention was, given to methods of classification, and much emphasis laid on the results, which were thought to have a significance beyond that of the mere convenience of mankind. |
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