SCIENCE

MEANING OF SCIENCE
It means gathering or constructing a

certain kind of knowledge, It is primary quest for knowledge, The purpose of science is the creation of reliable knowledge about the empirical world.

 Science helps in the advancement of

knowledge and in the creation of material and cultural conditions for the realization of human values. Science is a conquest of nature, ignorance, poverty and diseases and other evils which breed in them.

NATURE & CHARACTERISTICS SCIENCE

OF

1. A science is a SYSTEM - It is a system of

organized knowledge 2. A science is EMPIRICAL in nature Knowledge is obtained by observation. 3. A science is based on CRITICAL DISCRIMINATION It is objective and impartial. 4. A science deals with the GENERAL NATURE of things and events and it consists of general explanations and principles.

5. A science is SELF CORRECTIVE in nature

whenever new facts are found, the old conclusions are revised, if the new facts demand so. It is systematic doubt and search for new facts. 6. A science is OBJECTIVE in nature It does not depend on subject attitudes like feeling, temperature, bias etc. A science is free from any prejudice.

7. A science formulates LAWS Facts are

explained with reference to laws. Laws are explained by constructing theories which relate the laws to a coherent system. 8. Function of PREDICTION On the basis of laws, a science can predict the happening of certain events.