What is "science"?

[tigermission1]

I am curious, what do you think 'science' is? Also, are you familiar with what's meant by the 'scientific method'?

[Deckard]

You should ask B-Bob. Whoops! I forgot that he's taken a self-imposed hiatus. You out there, B-Bob? Chime in!




Impeach Bush.

[weslinder]

Science is the art of begging for money to support research that just seems interesting. Engineers make the world a better place, scientists think about it. :D

[danny317]

observation

hypothesis

create a method to test hypothesis

test

record results

review to see whether results validate the hypothesis.

repeat.

[danny317]

Originally Posted by weslinder Science is the art of begging for money to support research :D

this is very sad but true.

[franchise403]

Science is an imaginative adventure of the mind seeking truth in a world of mystery.

[rhester]

well off the top of my head I think the scientific method is a process of observing, collecting and measuring data; I think it means observation, experimentation and drawing conclusions or proposing theories as related to the what is observed based upon the support of the data.

I could be way off, but not too far hopefully.

[Bandwagoner]

Originally Posted by danny317 observation hypothesis create a method to test hypothesis test record results review to see whether results validate the hypothesis. repeat.

results that can be repeated by others

[rfila]

Originally Posted by tigermission1 In engaging in a discussion in another thread, I realized that most 'non-scientists' may not have an accurate understanding of what 'science' actually means. So I am curious, what do you think 'science' is? Also, are you familiar with what's meant by the 'scientific method'?

Is this tigermission1 a philosopher?

Most of the scientists and engineers(myself was one at some point in my life) I know do not ask this question in a forum. They know it when they see it. If for whatever reason they feel to have a formal anwser, they look up at some more credible source, or use google to do the search these days.

[rhadamanthus]

Originally Posted by tigermission1 In engaging in a discussion in another thread, I realized that most 'non-scientists' may not have an accurate understanding of what 'science' actually means. So I am curious, what do you think 'science' is? Also, are you familiar with what's meant by the 'scientific method'?

Are you normally this full of yourself? Particularly after making statements that are utterly wrong? Sheesh.

[Deckard]

Originally Posted by rhadamanthus Are you normally this full of yourself? Particularly after making statements that are utterly wrong? Sheesh.

Did I miss something?



Impeach Bush and Make Him Learn the Scientific Method.

In Tibet.

[rhadamanthus]

Originally Posted by Deckard Did I miss something? Impeach Bush and Make Him Learn the Scientific Method. In Tibet.

I am just a tad irritated with tiger in that he feels the need to lecture without having any clue what the **** he is talking about.

I suppose I should let it go.

[Deckard]

Originally Posted by rhadamanthus I am just a tad irritated with tiger in that he feels the need to lecture without having any clue what the **** he is talking about. I suppose I should let it go.

OK. Thanks for the clarification. Yes, I missed it!




Impeach Bush and Make Him Learn the Scientific Method.

In Tibet.

[Invisible Fan]

Originally Posted by rfila Is this tigermission1 a philosopher?

This could end up really good or...likely a mixture of stuff.

What's amazing in science's history is how people are able to make leaps and jumps by taking one small induction and intuiting it into a greater picture. This is like a robot listening to 10 minutes of casual conversation and able to respond back casually.

How in the world did Newton piece together the clockwork that applies to our solar system and the scales within it? The man practically moved heaven and earth with his gravitational theories. In a sense, we're piling up a house of cards with our assumptions, yet they have held for the most part without scapping a large part of it. The computers you use, the airplanes you fly, and the burritos you microwave are all validation of a conglomeration of indirect theories of observation.

[Invisible Fan]

Originally Posted by rhadamanthus I am just a tad irritated with tiger in that he feels the need to lecture without having any clue what the **** he is talking about. I suppose I should let it go.

I missed that while typing my reply. Kind of odd...

[HAYJON02]

Science is the reason I'm not a serf right now like the majority of people who have ever lived in the long forgotten unrecorded past. Heck, science is reason.

Homo sapiens have been around for about 100-200 thousand years and we just recently invented computers. That and everything else in our modern life makes science very important to me.

It's interesting to read about the history of science. We seem to make progress in spurts. The Romans and Greeks were doing pretty well before the "Dark/Middle Ages". Someone living at the height of classical Greek or Roman culture would have such a more refined view of the world around them compared to someone living in Europe a thousand years later.

Now looking back we can demonstrably see the benefits of science. I only wonder what the future of world changing discoveries holds. When do we stop learning and say "I've had enough. My curiosity is satisfied." It is entirely possible that things will take some steps backward before we move forward. I'm firmly in the "history repeats itself crowd" and my curiosity is not satisfied by a long shot.

[tigermission1]

Originally Posted by rhadamanthus I am just a tad irritated with tiger in that he feels the need to lecture without having any clue what the **** he is talking about. I suppose I should let it go.

Sorry, didn't mean to piss you off -- yet again it seems. I will edit the original post so as not to irritate you.

[LScolaDominates]

A good definition of science that I've heard is, "the study of organized knowledge."

[The Real Shady]

Science is the use of a computer to build the perfect woman.

[HAYJON02]

Originally Posted by The Real Shady Science is the use of a computer to build the perfect woman.

That's hilarious. I read an article in Scientific American interviewing a professor of robotics or something related and he predicted that within 50 years, we will see people marrying robots designed for companionship... yeah, sexbots.

It sounds crazy but think how many lonely "undesirable" people there are in the world. Out of the ten thousand Clutchfans, there are probably like 4. :D People with maybe limited social or physical graces who probably make up a good amount of the cases of depression since we are kind of hardwired to find "companionship". There's a huge utility for companionship, so I think Wierd Science could be an instance of being way ahead of its time looking back in a hundred years. It probably started with our relationship to pron, and then later internet porn, next...

The thought of shacking up with a sex-bot seems "perverted" but I think there are a lot of people who wish they could inadvertently or not program their partner to varying degrees. Some relationships are obviously more one sided and domineering.

I do worry that those people would just stay at home all day with their sex-bots and when it comes time to get evicted, claim it's a civil liberty and they can't repossess his "wife".