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The development of the scientific method in the late 1500’s to the early 1600’s was a crucial stepping-stone in the science community. The scientific method is based upon observations, hypotheses and experimentation. The concept is rather simple, and can be applied to many areas of study. Once an observation is made, the observer can make a hypothesis as to why that phenomenon occurs and can then design an experiment to prove whether or not that hypotheses is valid. Although the scientific method has been extremely useful in the discovery of various things from usages of medications to studying animal behavior, there are still those who question the usage of this tool. These critics claim that since

The above view is expressed in many different ways: that there is no scientific knowledge that we should not want to have for

Undoubtedly, humanity and modern civilization would have never reached their current form with the research. Research is the key element behind any type of evolution and progress. Contemporary, broadly established theories, varying from the understanding of the universe to the revelation of human evolution, are the result of valuable innovations in different fields of science and technology. Every day life has been simplified due to the constant advance of knowledge and discoveries. However, none of this would be possible without constant research. Therefore, and since research is vital to the development of human civilization, the need to augment and supplement current research methods has become apparent. Even though research outcomes

Science, such a wonderful thing, isn’t it? It has created the basis for everything in the world that we enjoy today, from the very common example, your phones, to things that you might not even notice, like the synthetic fibers of the clothes that you are wearing. A common view about science is that science itself has no relation to society, that science is true and objective. This is one of the most controversial issues about science, that science is value neutral. But what we need to accept, is that it is not.

If we refer back to Gawande’s, Mistrust of Science we can predict that not all “science” is reliable science. There have been instances where we believed that “the sun moved across the sky” and that when being out in the cold, we have a greater chance of getting sick. These are all said to be facts, and they were even said by scientists. Though, we have to look deeper into the facts and the knowledge, because these statements are just hypotheses. They have yet to be proven. So when is science factual? When can we take the word of science and use it to gain more knowledge? This article suggested that “all knowledge is just probable knowledge. A contradictory piece of evidence can always emerge.” This is, in fact, true. Knowledge is just what you find to an answer once. Just because that specific question has been answered does not mean that it is the one and the only answer, there could be and probably are much more. For example, medicine. Medicine was once said to be all we had. There was once a time where if you got cancer you were bound to pass, or if you got AIDs or even HIV, there was no chance of survival after a short amount of time. Today, these answers have changed, due to the never-ending search for more knowledge in these

Sixty percent of Americans quit something at one point in their lives. Of that sixty percent, forty percent quit because they thought they mastered their task. For someone to fully grow, he or she needs to strive past what they've mastered. People need to learn more about what they've mastered in order to fully grow. Someone who tries something beyond what he or she has mastered will grow because he or she will gain new knowledge, figure out what he or she is best at, and fully grow as an individual. Someone who attempts to learn beyond what he or she has mastered is able to acquire new knowledge. Scientists do this all the time by figuring out if a theory is true or false and then trying to see if they can learn even more about it.

There is no doubt that knowledge has undeniable value in todayworld. As society tends to say, education is the key to success. And since education gives birth to knowledge, knowledge must be a priority. True in many regards. But lets take a closer look at how knowledge relates to advances in science. Lack of knowledge will keep our world at a standstill. We need to know, even the basics, of how to do something before anything can be accomplished. However, when the knowledge is acquired, it is the human factor that comes into play. It is taking that knowledge and putting it to a functional use.

There has been many misunderstandings about science over the years. People be thinking that scientific knowledge is absolute and that it never changes, but it's all wrong. Scientific knowledge is never absolute. Which means that nobody can ever actually find the final proof for any scientific theory. Whenever scientists are working on any type of theory they create some type of model, which is some type of idea that they have, which in most cases is wrong, scientists then keep researching further more and if they ever get any more details or anything that lists different than what the scientists thought they go back and change it. The reason that it's always

The positivism perspective is an extension to the empiricism view on knowledge that states that knowledge comes from induction and observable experiences and that this knowledge is used to explain social phenomena (Benton & Craib, 2011). Nevertheless, the empiric view of knowledge on which positivism is based has long been subject to limitations. Immanuel Kant noted for instance that knowledge does not only come from the senses but also from a basic pallet of conceptual knowledge we all have. Furthermore, the interpretation of observations can differ due to the different way everyone acquires concepts. The claims done by Staman and Slob (2012) mentioned earlier are analyzed below for using this perspective on science.

In the TED talk, “The Pursuit of Ignorance,” Stuart Firestein makes the argument that there is this great misconception in the way that we study science. He describes the way we view the process of science today as, "a very well-ordered mechanism for understanding the world, for gaining facts, for gaining data." (Firestein 0:11 and 18:23) Although Firestein provides a convincing argument that modern science processes rely too much on facts instead of ignorance and new discovery, he fails to provide strong evidence that it should instead focus solely on the pursuit of ignorance.

1. Even the best scientists have been wrong about some things. Give two examples from this video where well-known scientists were wrong.

Even though science usually has factual answers to support many of its claims, I do not believe in Adkins view of science as the truth. In the video, Adkins’ says, “although some may snipe and others carp, there can be no denying the proposition that science is the best procedure yet discovering for exposing fundamental truths about the world by its combination of careful experimentation guided by theory and its elaboration and improvement of theory based on experiments that is inspired”(adkins-2013). This is true as science has many certainties, which have been proven through experiments. However, science does not hold all truths, and there are things that even science cannot explain.

We live in a strange and puzzling world. Despite the exponential growth of knowledge in the past century, we are faced by a baffling multitude of conflicting ideas. The mass of conflicting ideas causes the replacement of knowledge, as one that was previously believed to be true gets replace by new idea. This is accelerated by the rapid development of technology to allow new investigations into knowledge within the areas of human and natural sciences. Knowledge in the human sciences has been replaced for decades as new discoveries by the increased study of humans, and travel has caused the discarding of a vast array of theories. The development of

Humanity’s interest in unknown world has been universal and enduring. Accompany with human development, discovery the unknown world has become more and more important to human life. Some people think discovery is a good thing. They will tell you how X-ray used by medical professionals to help diagnose and treat a wide range of medical problems. They will also tell you what a mass your life will be if Benjamin Franklin did not discovered electricity. But other argue people think discovery bring disaster to human. They will tell you if Martin Heinrich Klaproth did not discover uranium, maybe atomic bomb would not been invented. Although the question about whether discovery always a good thing has so many

The nature and process of science are a collection of things, ideas, and guidelines. “The purpose of science is to learn about and understand our universe more completely” (Science works in specific ways, 3). Science works with evidence from our world. If it doesn’t come from the natural world, it isn’t science. You need to be creative and have flexible thoughts and ideas if you want to be a scientist. Science always brings up new ideas and theories and if you aren’t flexible to those ideas you can’t be a scientist. Science has been in our world for a long time. It is deep into our history and our cultures. The principals of science; are all about understanding our world using the evidence we collect. If we can’t collect evidence on something we simply cannot understand it. If we don’t understanding something about our world, science says that we can learn about it by collecting evidence (Science has principals, 4). Science is a process; it takes time. You don’t immediately come to a conclusion for your hypothesis a few minutes