Science

Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning “knowledge”) is the effort to discover, and increase human understanding of how the physical world works. Through controlled methods, science uses observable physical evidence of natural phenomena to collect data, and analyzes this information to explain what and how things work.

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    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “ The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. ”
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    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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