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Introduction to Science:

Science can be defined as any system of knowledge that is concerned with the physical world
and its phenomena and that entails unbiased observations and systematic experimentation.

Science is the study that involves methods of investigating nature--a way of knowing about
nature--that discovers reliable knowledge about it. In other words, science is a method of
discovering reliable knowledge about nature.

Reliable knowledge is knowledge that has a high probability of being true because its veracity
has been justified by a reliable method. Reliable knowledge is sometimes called justified true
belief, to distinguish reliable knowledge from belief that is false and unjustified or even true but
unjustified.

Three Branches of Science

Modern Science is mainly constituted of three main branches, i.e. Natural Sciences, Social
Sciences, and Formal Sciences as these three areas peruse the nature of our world and the
universe most broadly.

Thus, the three main branches of Science are:

 Natural Sciences
 Social Sciences
 Formal Sciences

Natural Sciences

Natural Sciences are the core of the branches of science as study the nature of our physical world
and the universe. Branches of Natural Sciences are:

Physical science-study of nonliving beings and natural phenomena governed by a set of laws,
e.g., physics, chemistry, geology, astronomy, meteorology, metallurgy, and so on.

Biological science-also called life science or biology-study of living beings. Similarly, based on
the nature of study it occupies, biological science is also categorized into two fields-pure biology
and applied biology.
Pure biology-basic biology with extension of knowledge, e.g., discovery, investigation,
research, invention, and so on in biology.

Applied biology-application of basic knowledge of biology as a technology in the


benefit of men in agriculture, forestry, biotechnology, genetic engineering, and so on.

Social Sciences

Social Sciences study human societies from across the globe as well as the relationship of human
beings with their social environment

The major branches of Social Science are:

Psychology: Scientific discipline that studies mental states and processes and behavior in
humans and other animals.

Sociology: A social science that studies human societies, their interactions, and the processes
that preserve and change them. It does this by examining the dynamics of constituent parts of
societies such as institutions, communities, populations, and gender, racial, or age groups.

Anthropology: Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human


behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past,
including past human species.

Economics: Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and
consumption of goods and services.

Archaeology: Archaeology is the study of the human past using material remains.

History: History, the discipline that studies the chronological record of events (as affecting a
nation or people), based on a critical examination of source materials and usually presenting an
explanation of their causes.

Geography: Geography is the study of places and the relationships between people and their
environments.

Law: Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental
institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate.
Politics: Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with
systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought,
political behavior, and associated constitutions and laws.

Formal Sciences

Formal Sciences is quite a unique area of study in Science as it uses formal systems to produce
knowledge and explore the nature of different disciplines ranging from Mathematics, and Logic
to Computer Science and Information Technology. The most important branches of Formal
Sciences are:

Mathematics

Logic

Computer Science

Data Science

Statistics

Systems Science

Artificial Intelligence

Information Technology, etc

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