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S15) Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the
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S16) Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit; and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman’s cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club

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S17) Science is a body of useful and practical knowledge and a method of obtaining it

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S18) Science is a branch of pure learning which aims at intellectual satisfaction. But
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S19) The great development of science of the 19th century is connected with its divorce from philosophy; and the changes are so great that it is perhaps hardly right to regard the science of today as the same thing as the science before that century[/align]

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S20) Science is an attempt to understand nature by asking questions and trying to face the facts of things , no matter where they may lead

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S22) Science is not static. Science is exploding exponentially all around us. If you count the number of scientific articles being published, you will find that the sheer volume of science doubles every decade or so. Innovation and discovery are changing the entire economic, political, and social landscape

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S23) Science discovers patterns, symmetries, and mathematical laws to interconnect a multiplicity of individual events. In order to uncover the laws, regularities, and pattern of nature, it is necessary first to abstract phenomena from the real world and consider laws in isolation from the contingencies of everyday life

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S24) Science moves forward whenever we can take something that was once invisible and make it visible


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S25) Scientific inquiry often begins with a question

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S26) Science is not democratic in the sense that we all get together and vote on the right answer.<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" /><o></o>

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S27) Science consists of a two-way movement of confirmation and falsification

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S28) Science is dedicated to seeing any fact as it is, and being open to free communication with regard not only to the fact itself, but also to the point of view from which it is interpreted


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S29) Science acknowledges any fact and any point of view as it actually is whether one likes it or not

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