What is scientific knowledge

Author: Wang Tiansi
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: In today's highly developed science, the struggle between science and superstition, knowledge and ignorance is far from over. Improving the scientific literacy of the entire nation is an ongoing and complex social endeavor. The publication of the "Four Sciences" Education Series is merely a small contribution from the compilers and publishers in advancing this endeavor. For this very reason, the series strives to be accessible, blending thoughtfulness,, knowledge, and readability, while avoiding obscure language and empty rhetoric. The book uses numerous case studies, with many stories of scientists being engaging and inspiring. Regarding scientific knowledge, this book attempts to outline the overall picture of scientific knowledge through sketches of natural and social sciences. As a cohesive whole, we have tried to cover important knowledge content from various scientific fields. However, due to space constraints, some universally known aspects are only briefly mentioned as important logical links, while in some areas too broad in scope, we cannot fully address the completeness of the knowledge system or the comprehensiveness of the content, no matter how we design the level of detail. The story told in this book is one of evolution that includes ourselves. The closer science gets to human beings, the less certain it becomes compared to classical theories. The more we delve into such fields, the more complex the choices we face, as if we are entering an art gallery rather than a natural history museum.