Science Spectrum Quiz

The three major branches of modern science are natural sciences, social sciences, and formal sciences.

Examples of disciplines under natural sciences include physics, chemistry, and biology; under social sciences include economics, psychology, and sociology; and under formal sciences include logic, mathematics, and theoretical computer science.

Applied sciences are disciplines that use scientific knowledge for practical purposes, such as in engineering and medicine.

<p>There is disagreement whether the formal sciences are science disciplines, because they do not rely on empirical evidence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The history of scientific discipline spans the majority of the historical record, with the earliest written records of identifiable predecessors to modern science dating to Bronze Age Egypt and Mesopotamia.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The three major branches of modern science are natural sciences, social sciences, and formal sciences.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Examples of disciplines within the natural sciences include physics, chemistry, and biology.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Formal sciences study formal systems, governed by axioms and rules, and do not rely on empirical evidence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>There is disagreement whether formal sciences are science disciplines, because they do not rely on empirical evidence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Applied sciences are disciplines that use scientific knowledge for practical purposes, such as in engineering and medicine.</p> Signup and view all the answers