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"Equipped with his five senses, man
explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science".
Edwin Powell Hubble, The Nature of Science, 1954
Science
"Science in
the broadest sense refers to any system of
objective knowledge. In a
more restricted sense, science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge
based on the
scientific method, as
well as to the organized body of
knowledge humans have
gained by such
research. This article
focuses on the latter sense of the word."
Source:
Wikipedia It takes
about 8 minutes for light to travel from the
sun to the Earth. When
looking at the stars we are seeing what
the stars were like billions of years
ago not as they are now.
"At this moment, the earth is in the
middle of an ice age which began around 2.58 million
years ago. We are in an interglacial period which
started between 10,000 and 15,000 years ago and may
last for a further 50,000 years before global
glaciation begins again.
[Source
- NASA]" From: Listverse "Your heart
beats over 100,000 times a day!"Source:
World-English.org "Earth is the
only planet not named after a god."
Source:
World-English.org
"Science in
the broadest sense refers to any system of