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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. The earliest roots of science can be traced back to ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and formal attempts were made to provide natural explanations for events in classical Greek antiquity. After declining during the Middle Ages, natural philosophy was revived during the Islamic Golden Age and Scientific Revolution. Modern science is typically divided into the natural sciences, social sciences, and formal sciences, though there is disagreement on whether formal sciences constitute science. Science is based on research conducted in academic and research institutions as well as government and companies.

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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. The earliest roots of science can be traced back to ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and formal attempts were made to provide natural explanations for events in classical Greek antiquity. After declining during the Middle Ages, natural philosophy was revived during the Islamic Golden Age and Scientific Revolution. Modern science is typically divided into the natural sciences, social sciences, and formal sciences, though there is disagreement on whether formal sciences constitute science. Science is based on research conducted in academic and research institutions as well as government and companies.

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Science

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about a branch of knowledge. For other uses, see Science (disambiguation).
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The Universe represented as multiple disk-shaped slices across time, which passes from left to right.

Science (from the Latin word scientia, meaning "knowledge")[1] is a systematic enterprise that


builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about
the universe.[2][3][4]
The earliest roots of science can be traced to Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around
3500 to 3000 BCE.[5][6] Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered
and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were
made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes.[5]
[6] After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the
world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of
the Middle Ages[7] but was preserved in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age.
[8] The recovery and assimilation of Greek works and Islamic inquiries into Western Europe
from the 10th to 13th century revived "natural philosophy",[7][9] which was later transformed by
the Scientific Revolution that began in the 16th century[10] as new ideas and
discoveries departed from previous Greek conceptions and traditions.[11][12][13][14] The scientific
method soon played a greater role in knowledge creation and it was not until the 19th
century that many of the institutional and professional features of science began to take
shape;[15][16][17] along with the changing of "natural philosophy" to "natural science."[18]
Modern science is typically divided into three major branches that consist of the natural
sciences (e.g., biology, chemistry, and physics), which study nature in the broadest sense;
the social sciences (e.g., economics, psychology, and sociology), which study individuals and
societies; and the formal sciences (e.g., logic, mathematics, and theoretical computer
science), which study abstract concepts. There is disagreement,[19][20][21] however, on whether
the formal sciences actually constitute a science as they do not rely on empirical evidence.[22]
[20] Disciplines that use existing scientific knowledge for practical purposes, such
as engineering and medicine, are described as applied sciences.[23][24][25][26]
Science is based on research, which is commonly conducted in academic and research
institutions as well as in government agencies and companies. The practical impact of
scientific research has led to the emergence of science policies that seek to influence the
scientific enterprise by prioritizing the development of commercial
products, armaments, health care, and environmental protection.

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