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What is the primary aim of science?
What is the primary aim of science?
- To prove that things happen randomly
- To promote religious beliefs
- To understand why things happen in the natural world (correct)
- To create new technologies
What is the scientific method?
What is the scientific method?
- A process that involves observing, explaining, and testing possible explanations (correct)
- A method to create new scientific theories
- A set of rules that scientists use to manipulate data
- A way to prove that a hypothesis is true
What is the role of testing and experimentation in science?
What is the role of testing and experimentation in science?
- To confirm the validity of a hypothesis
- To prove that a theory is true
- To eliminate wrong explanations (correct)
- To create new scientific theories
What is the relationship between textbooks and science?
What is the relationship between textbooks and science?
What is the lecture series about?
What is the lecture series about?
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Study Notes
- The lecture series is about the scientific method and what science is.
- The first step in the scientific method will be discussed with examples.
- The founding of modern science and the industrial revolution will also be briefly reviewed.
- Science aims to understand why things happen in the natural world.
- The scientific method involves observing, explaining, and testing possible explanations.
- The knowledge in textbooks is only one part of science and has gone through the scientific method.
- Testing and experimentation are used to eliminate wrong explanations.
- Science is not just limited to specific subjects like Chemistry or Physics.
- The facts, ideas, and concepts in textbooks are true to the best of our knowledge.
- The lecture aims to answer the question, "What is science actually?"
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