Aristotle was perhaps the first scientist, yet his writings traverse a gamut ranging from literature (literary theory and criticism) to politics and physics. What we now know as "science" was at some time in the recent past referred to as "natural philosophy." In our contemporary world, "science" is sometimes used interchangeably with "technology." During the European Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci was an artist, yet he also designed models for airplanes, so was he a "scientist"? Is technology the offspring of science? Aristotle Renaissance Philosophy Designer
To brief it, a scientist is a person whom does not follow anyone. the person who is trying to think out the box, and to create or present newer thinking of something. This is the fact, text book are the bridge to new discovery, not to follow.
Scientist: one who tries to understand (by search, observation, and examination) the formal, material, efficient, and final causes of natural phenomena: a natural philosopher.
The hallmark of science is causal prediction. Today, for example, both psychoanalysis and the current neurosciences claim to be predictive and basically reductivist. Thus materialism, mechanism, determinism, empiricism, phenomenalism, behaviorism are regarded as scientifically oriented.
In earlier days, “philosophy” was the term used to refer all types of knowledge including science. The present-day scientists were referred to as “natural philosophers”; that is, philosophers who study nature, and the more common term for science was “natural philosophy”. During the 18th century, the word ‘science’ began to be used in the sense of any systematic field of study distancing itself from philosophy. The word “science” is from Scientia, a Latin term, meaning knowledge; and it was originally used to mean simply knowledge. However, science as we understand today is much more than simply knowledge.
Scientific knowledge is dynamic, which is constantly revised or expanded through the processes of observation and experimentation. Therefore, one can say that science includes a ‘content’ part and a ‘process’ part of acquiring or improving this content. Scientific knowledge hitherto known to us developed as the content of science. This ‘content’ is what we usually read and learn from science textbooks comprising of descriptions, facts, principles, theories, laws, and their relationships. The ‘content’ of science develops through the ‘process’ of science involving repeated observation and experimentation. This ‘process’ is nothing but research using scientific method.
A scientist does not have an opinion but forwards hypotheses which are supported by significant evidence. Those backed up arguments may support other theories, contradict, or expand them. They may equally introduce an entirely novel theory. Additionally, science encompasses all major disciplines, which can be referred to in a intra-, inter-, and transdisciplinary manner.
science is the explanation of all process, inventions and discoveries
scientist are to explain the above and bringing new inventions and discoveries
@Nagalakshmi Radhakrishnan - Thank you; however, is science really concerned with explaining "inventions"? If so, could you please give some examples?
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