Is Science a Boon or a Bane
SCIENCE
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Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. An older and closely related meaning still in use today is that found for example In aristotle, whereby "science" refers to the body of reliable knowledge itself, of the type that can be logically and rationally explained . In modern use, "science" is a term which more often refers to a way of pursuing knowledge, and not the knowledge itself. It is "often treated as synonymous with ‘natural and physical science’, and thus restricted to those branches of study that relate to the phenomena of the material universe and their laws, sometimes with implied exclusion of pure mathematics. In recent years it seems that importance of science has declined in the past couple of years. However its necessity in growing the economy and finding new solutions to old problems and dilemnas remain the same. However history is now entering a period where the great discoveries mostly cannot be made with out some sort of financial backing for the equipment and research time. This means that there is a real chance for major nations losing ground in the sciences if they do not make the conscientious effort to invest in research and development. President Obama made a telling point in saying that innovation was the key to “winning the future.” In an increasingly competitive global market it is the country that can harness innovation and technology that will be the most successful economically. Basical labor is something that can gain value one day and lose it the next but the possibilites and new markets created by science and invention are eternal. So what are areas where science is important? The first is in everyday human life. Thanks to advances in the biomedical fields there are fewer infectious or lethal disease than ever before. Some illnesses that would be death sentences even just twenty years ago with
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Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. An older and closely related meaning still in use today is that found for example In aristotle, whereby "science" refers to the body of reliable knowledge itself, of the type that can be logically and rationally explained . In modern use, "science" is a term which more often refers to a way of pursuing knowledge, and not the knowledge itself. It is "often treated as synonymous with ‘natural and physical science’, and thus restricted to those branches of study that relate to the phenomena of the material universe and their laws, sometimes with implied exclusion of pure mathematics. In recent years it seems that importance of science has declined in the past couple of years. However its necessity in growing the economy and finding new solutions to old problems and dilemnas remain the same. However history is now entering a period where the great discoveries mostly cannot be made with out some sort of financial backing for the equipment and research time. This means that there is a real chance for major nations losing ground in the sciences if they do not make the conscientious effort to invest in research and development. President Obama made a telling point in saying that innovation was the key to “winning the future.” In an increasingly competitive global market it is the country that can harness innovation and technology that will be the most successful economically. Basical labor is something that can gain value one day and lose it the next but the possibilites and new markets created by science and invention are eternal. So what are areas where science is important? The first is in everyday human life. Thanks to advances in the biomedical fields there are fewer infectious or lethal disease than ever before. Some illnesses that would be death sentences even just twenty years ago with