Science

Question 1

Science is an * that gathers knowledge about the world and condenses this knowledge into *

Answer 1

organized systematic enterprise, testable laws and principles

Question 2

Science is an organized systematic enterprise that * about the world and * into testable laws and principles

Answer 2

gathers knowledge, condenses this knowledge

Question 3

Diagnostic features of science

Answer 3

consilience, heuristics, economy, mensuration, Repeatability

Question 4

The same phenomenon is sought again, preferably by independent investigation, and the interpretation given to its confirmed or discarded by means of novel analysis and experimentation

Answer 4

repeatability

Question 5

Scientists attempt to abstract the information into the form that is both simplest and aesthetically most pleasing - the combination called elegance - while yielding the largest amount of information with the least amount of effort

Answer 5

Economy

Question 6

If something can be properly measured, using universally accepted scales, generalizations about it are rendered unambiguous

Answer 6

mensuration

Question 7

The best science stimulates further discovery, often in unpredictable new directions; and the new knowledge provides an additional test of the original principles that led to its discovery

Answer 7

Heuristics

Question 8

The explanations of different phenomena most likely to survive are those that can be connected and proved consistent with one another

Answer 8

Consilience