Concept
Science
Overview
systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge, and the set of knowledge produced by this system
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In the original texts
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If we say that science is organised knowledge, we are met by the truth that all knowledge is organised in a greater or less degree--that the commonest actions of the household and the field presuppose facts colligated, inferences drawn, results expected; and that the general success of these actions proves the data by which they were guided to have been correctly put together. If, again, we say that science is…
Herbert Spencer, Essays on education and kindred subjects
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XIX). The idea of science thus generated persisted after science had itself adopted the appliances of the arts, using them for the production of knowledge, and after the rise of democracy. Taking theory just as theory, however, that which concerns humanity is of more significance for man than that which concerns a merely physical world.
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
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What is Science? To see the absurdity of the prejudice against it, we need only remark that Science is simply a higher development of common knowledge; and that if Science is repudiated, all knowledge must be repudiated along with it. The extremest bigot will not suspect any harm in the observation that the sun rises earlier and sets later in the summer than in the winter; but will rather consider such an…
Herbert Spencer, First Principles
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Science, in other words, is a system of relations. Now we have just said, it is in the relations alone that objectivity must be sought; it would be vain to seek it in beings considered as isolated from one another.
Henri Poincaré, The Foundations of Science
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Science is said to beset the highways, because through all the journey and peregrination of human life there is matter and occasion offered of contemplation.
Francis Bacon, Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients
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Philosophers who discussed Science
- Paul Carus
- Feminism
- Avicenna
- Hemachandra
- Anaximander
- Carl Gustav Hempel
- Alexander Bain (philosopher)
- Michael Ruse
- Constantin Noica
- Thomas Nagel
- Maimonides
- Mario Bunge
- Moritz Schlick
- Oswald Spengler
- Plato
- Thomas Kuhn
- Philip Kitcher
- Aristotle
- Zeno of Citium
- Lewis White Beck
- Young Marx
- Richard McKeon
- Robert Boyle
- Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
Related ideas
- Epicurus
- Empiricism
- Aristotelian physics
- Ritual
- Falsifiability
- Anglo-Norman language
- Avicenna
- Francis Bacon
- Artificial intelligence
- Anaximander
- Book of Optics
- General relativity
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Theory of impetus
- Hippocrates
- History of science
- The Canon of Medicine
- Isaac Newton
- Problem solving
- Almagest
- Industrial Revolution
- Academy
- Integrated circuit
- Isidore of Seville
Opposing perspectives
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