• Annotated Index for sciencesNavigating this site:
return to previously viewed page
Science has
three meanings:
a corpus,
a means,
a doing.
So by running experiments scientist's findings can be challenged.
Inevitably, what we currently know may change, and significant changes happen.
Search here
LoadingScience in English usage is a very narrowly defined word.
Science, otherwise, forms a broad body of information that the German and French use that has a fourth characterization:
- A corpus, or a body of accumulating knowledge.
- A means, or a method to determine reliable data.
- A doing, or the application of what is known, applied
- A systematically descriptive and analytical use of information.
Below is a broad thematic index to important pages on this site for discussing science, such as:
Means to know | Corpus of informed learning | role of errors | indexed topics | ecological links | What we do
An index to science subjects with concepts & explanations of the material world.
Atoms | Bohr | Electromagnetism | Light quanta | Quantum biology | Quantum scale | Quantum Universe | Radiation is
Science | nature | ecology | lessons | scientific related topics | technology | additional material
Apparent motion of the planets in time-lapsed photography, from the earth.
Earth rise from the Lunar surface.
Revolutions in thinking
Aristotle, on nature of change
Galileo, on celestial motion
Newton, on laws of nature
Hooke on science
Lavoisier, on chemical elements
Capra on complexity
Darwin, on origin, order and behavior
Einstein, on special and general relativity
Bohr, on subatomic uncertainty
Ehrlich and Ehrlich on human evolution.
Freud, on irrationality of human life
Gell-Mann, on order, complexity, and contingency
Hardin on ecological literacy
Horney on neurosis
Keller on genes
Margulis and the eukaryotic cell
Mayr on evolution
Tattersall, Human development
Thomas on the earth as a single cell
Watson, on the deception of interior environments
Wegener, on an active earth's surface
The starting page for basic science
Means to know | How to know | Corpus of informed learning | role of errors | indexed topics | ecological links | What we do
Science | nature | ecology | lessons | scientific related topics | technology | additional material
Technology
index 
landscape index words index map index photograph index
Breughal the Elder, The Alchemist.
Etymology of science and technology.
Herbert Spencer, author of "survival of the fittest."
Science is a means of knowing with some certainty:
Methods: these are two related pages that discuss, examine in some detail and diagram the means we have from distinguishing facts from opinions. See also certainty, science, and vocabulary.
Model here is a schematic diagram of ecological relationships in any place.
method, Scientists commenting on the means they use to understand nature
or
Body of Knowledge: a rationally and internally consistent set of explanations that form a coherent subject based on theoretical and experimental evidence with mathematically discoverable regularities and perturbations.
Science sources.
lesson one: on the meaning and confusion of terms
lesson two: means of knowing the enveloping mystery.
lesson three: revealing the order in the mystery
lesson four: The body of knowledge about this mystery.
Means to know | Corpus of informed learning | role of errors | indexed topics | ecological links | What we do
Science | nature | ecology | lessons | scientific related topics | technology | additional material
Biological diversity explained in detail.
biological game of life is a very different view of nature.
Biogeochemical Cycles, Biological, geological and chemical cycling of nutrients for growth.
Climate change, a guide to pages related to global warming, the issue examined and discussed.
Complexity
of nature and the biosphere 
Darwin, On the Origin of Species, (1859)
Diversity of Life, E. O. Wilson
Einstein's thoughts about research and society.
Evolution
was Charles Darwin's revolutionary proof of common descent by means
of natural selection.
Evolution, what is it?
Feedback is defined and examples of how it is used in these pages is explained.
Five dimensions, not three?
see below for lessons:
Science | nature | ecology | scientific related topics | technology | Genes
Frequently asked questions, about
IPCC's Fourth Assessment findings
Genes: visualizing chromosomes and cell nuclei.
Genetics, the history of in brief.
Genetic resistance to disease, an example.
Genetics: genotype differs from phenotype.
Genome, highlights of traits from across the chromosomes.
Hawking's theories, Stephen Hawking.
Keller, The Century of the Gene.
Lewontin, The Triple Helix.
Living
Downstream, an ecologist looks at cancer.
Mayr, Ernst, One Long Argument.
Mayr on species.
Mayr's diagram of Darwin's theories
Margulis, Symbiotic Planet.
Medicinal values of plants, an example.
Miller, G. Tyler on ecosystems.
Ockham's Razor, the importance of avoiding pleonasm in your writing!
On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin, (1859)
Plutonium and its use.
Quantum characteristics in biology.
Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and General Theory. Robert W. Lawson, trans. New York: Crown Publishers (1916) 1961.
Scientific method, three necessary features of sciences
Scientists commenting on the method
Means to know | Corpus of informed learning | role of errors | indexed topics | ecological links | What we do
Science | nature | ecology | lessons | scientific related topics | technology | additional material
Science | nature | ecology | scientific related topics | technology
Ecology
Ecological biotic community: examined and defined
Ecological subjects connected at this location; three laws
Ecology, definition, examples, commentary and links
Ecology used as a model of relations among integrated parts
Carolyn Merchant's idea of ecological revolutions.
Newcomen engine and the neutron
Doing something with what we discover:
Technology is discussed and examined as the means we have to solve the apparent difference between an existing and a desired state of affairs or conditions.
The importance of technological change and techniques
Technology is defined here as the application of scientific knowledge to human affairs.
The intrinsic value of character and the importance of the life we are protecting
A basic index of science subjects – is Scienindex
Visual index to of science subjects
Science subjects
new to the sight
Means to know | Corpus of informed learning | role of errors | indexed topics | ecological links | What we do
Science | nature | ecology | lessons | scientific related topics | technology | additional material
Terms | Glossary | Word webs | Basic vocabulary | Advanced Vocabulary | Antonyms | Synonyms
Science | nature | ecology | Malthus | | scientific related topics | technology
