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    Science refers to a systematic pursuit of knowledge involving testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Traditionally, science was closely linked to philosophy as a type of reliable knowledge that could be logically explained. By the 17th century, natural philosophy emerged as a separate branch focusing on nature. Today, science often refers specifically to natural and physical science relating to material phenomena and their laws, with the development of scientific laws and methods by scientists like Kepler, Galileo, and Newton. The term "scientist" was coined in the 19th century to distinguish those studying nature from other disciplines, as science became associated with the scientific method of disciplined study of the natural world.

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    Science refers to a systematic pursuit of knowledge involving testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Traditionally, science was closely linked to philosophy as a type of reliable knowledge that could be logically explained. By the 17th century, natural philosophy emerged as a separate branch focusing on nature. Today, science often refers specifically to natural and physical science relating to material phenomena and their laws, with the development of scientific laws and methods by scientists like Kepler, Galileo, and Newton. The term "scientist" was coined in the 19th century to distinguish those studying nature from other disciplines, as science became associated with the scientific method of disciplined study of the natural world.

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    Science refers to a systematic pursuit of knowledge involving testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Traditionally, science was closely linked to philosophy as a type of reliable knowledge that could be logically explained. By the 17th century, natural philosophy emerged as a separate branch focusing on nature. Today, science often refers specifically to natural and physical science relating to material phenomena and their laws, with the development of scientific laws and methods by scientists like Kepler, Galileo, and Newton. The term "scientist" was coined in the 19th century to distinguish those studying nature from other disciplines, as science became associated with the scientific method of disciplined study of the natural world.

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    Science (from Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge") is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizesknowledge in the form of testable

    explanations and predictions about the universe.[1] In an older and closely related meaning (found, for example, in Aristotle), "science" refers to the body of reliable knowledge itself, of the type that can be logically and rationally explained (see History and philosophy below).[2] Since classical antiquityscience as a type of knowledge was closely linked to philosophy. In the early modern era the words "science" and "philosophy" were sometimes used interchangeably in the English language.[3] By the 17th century, natural philosophy (which is today called "natural science") was considered a separate branch of philosophy.[4] However, "science" continued to be used in a broad sense denoting reliable knowledge about a topic, in the same way it is still used in modern terms such as library science or political science. In modern use, "science" more often refers to a way of pursuing knowledge, not only 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. This is now the dominant sense in ordinary use."[5] This narrower sense of "science" developed as scientists such as Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton began formulating laws of nature such asNewton's laws of motion. In this period it became more common to refer to natural philosophy as "natural science". Over the course of the 19th century, the word "science" became increasingly associated with thescientific method, a disciplined way to study the natural world, including physics, chemistry, geology and biology. It is in the 19th century also that the term scientist was created by the naturalist-theologian William Whewell to distinguish those who sought knowledge on nature from those who sought knowledge on other disciplines. TheOxford English Dictionary dates the origin of the word "scientist" to 1834. This sometimes left the study of human thought and society in a linguistic limbo, which was resolved by classifying these areas of academic study associal science. Similarly, several other major areas of disciplined study and knowledge exist today under the general rubric of "science", such as formal science and applied science.

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