Definición de 'science

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science

(saɪəns )

Formas de la palabra: plural sciences

1. sustantivo incontable

Science is the study of the nature and behaviour of natural things and the knowledge that we obtain about them.

The best discoveries in science are very simple.

...science and technology.

2. sustantivo contable

A science is a particular branch of science such as physics, chemistry, or biology.

Physics is the best example of a science which has developed strong, abstract theories.

...the science of microbiology.

Sinónimos:discipline, body of knowledge, area of study, branch of knowledge Más sinónimos de science

3. sustantivo contable

A science is the study of some aspect of human behaviour, for example sociology or anthropology.

...the modern science of psychology.

Más sinónimos de science

science in American English

(ˈsaɪəns ; sīˈəns)

sustantivo

1. Archaic

the state or fact of knowledge; knowledge

systematized knowledge derived from observation, study, and experimentation carried on in order to determine the nature or principles of what is being studied

any specific branch of scientific knowledge, esp. one concerned with establishing and systematizing facts, principles, and methods, as by experiments and hypotheses

the science of mathematics

the systematized knowledge of nature and the physical world

any branch of this

science

(ˈsaɪəns )

sustantivo

the systematic study of the nature and behaviour of the material and physical universe, based on observation, experiment, and measurement, and the formulation of laws to describe these facts in general terms

the knowledge so obtained or the practice of obtaining it

any particular branch of this knowledge

the pure and applied sciences

any body of knowledge organized in a systematic manner

skill or technique

6. archaic

knowledge

Origen de la palabra 'science

C14: via Old French from Latin scientia knowledge, from scīre to know

Ejemplos de frases que contienen 'science'

Surely racing is anything but an exact science. The Sun (2016)There have been so many cases in the past of government science experiments going wrong. The Sun (2013)For children and a few adults this schism between nature and science does not exist. Levenson, Thomas Ice Time: Climate, Science, and Life on Earth (1990)What do governments do about the distribution of their support for science and technology? Yearley, Steven Science, Technology, and Social Change (1988)She urged them to study maths or sciences instead. Times, Sunday Times (2014)The evidence from modern science bears this out. Paul Martin MAKING HAPPY PEOPLE (2005)This begins with a background conception of philosophy as akin to a very general kind of science. The Times Literary Supplement (2013)There are some good insights from the science of behaviour at play here. The Sun (2011)But demand has been rising in the biological sciences and chemistry. Times, Sunday Times (2014)She agreed that gastric emptying was not an exact science. Times, Sunday Times (2014)The information and ideas come from most of the natural and physical sciences and beyond. Michael Boulter EXTINCTION: Evolution and the End of Man (2002)No longer does he look like a science experiment gone awry. Times, Sunday Times (2012)Beyond these there is no general consensus on the specific nature of a science. Tom Cannon Basic Marketing. Principles and Practice (1986)We have kept the investment in science and technology. Times, Sunday Times (2012)This tendency has been produced by the convergence of two fields, cognitive science and evolutionary biology. Christianity Today (2000)They see a one-year masters in computer sciences as a way of making that transition. Times, Sunday Times (2007)We expect sciences like physics and chemistry to tell us basic, reliable things about the structure of the physical world. Salkie, Raphael The Chomsky Update - Linguistics and Politics (1990)

Citas

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassuresGeorges Braque Pensées sur l'art

Science is the record of dead religionsOscar Wilde Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. The rest is literaturePaul Valéry Moralités

Science is nothing but trained and organized common senseT.H. Huxley Biogenesis and Abiogenesis

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided menMartin Luther King

the great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly factT.H. Huxley Biogenesis and Abiogenesis

the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answerJacob Bronowski The Ascent of Man

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occursFrancis Darwin

Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingersArthur Eddington

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blindAlbert Einstein Science, Philosophy and Religion

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of scienceLouis Pasteur

Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a houseHenri Poincaré Science and Hypothesis

Science must begin with myths, and the criticism of mythsKarl Popper The Philosophy of Science