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This science essay was part of the shortlist from Science Day essay contest for children.
This children's essay competition was conducted by Khula Aasmaan and Science Park, Pune.
Science is a systematic and logical approach to how thing work in universe. It refers to a system of acquiring knowledge. It builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and prediction about the universe. It is a way of thinking and much more than it is a body of knowledge. It is well said that the science of today is the technology of tomorrow. This system uses observation and experiments to describe the natural world. In short, we say science is organized knowledge and wisdom is organized life.
We are living in a scientific era. science has changed our life altogether. It has entered every sphere of our life. From an early age, man started to observe and experiment their own surroundings and tried to verify the cause and effects to learn the nature. An experiment is a question which science poses to nature and a measurement is the recording of nature’s answer. Science is also described as the systematic classification of experiments. Science is a reasonable enterprise based on experimental evidence, criticism and rational discussion. Experiments provide the knowledge of physical world and it is the experiment that provides the evidence which grounds that knowledge. Correct theories of nature are an important goal of science. Nevertheless, experiments can also provide good reasons for believing in theories. Experiments can also call for a new theory either by showing that an accepted theory is incorrect or by exhibiting a new phenomenon which needs explanations.
Scientific experiments promote the development of scientific thinking and helps us to understand the things and the world around us. It promotes new discovery and learning. As we know it’s a complex world and there are many things that could be influencing phenomena, but in reality only a fraction of those things do. Scientific experiments systematically identify those few things. So, experiments are called as the language of science as they are at the core of scientific methods. Experiments are a special kind of observation that is to interrogate nature in a specific kind of way. But experimental investigation are great thief of time, it costs many days to determine a fact that can be stated in a line.
By using experiments, we aren’t doing anything fundamentally different, we are still observing what nature has to tell us about the world we inhabit, but we are trying to set up conditions that are meant to clarify what nature is saying. In this view, we can say that experiments are nature’s interpreters.
Success is a science, if you have the conditions you can get the results. Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. Research through experiments are formalized curiosity, it is poking and prying with a purpose. Experiments may have come to be thought of as the defining feature of science but they are really just a special case of something we all do everyday - observe the world around us. As a nature's speech therapist, experiment becomes a language of science.
(Narrated by Akshita Rajeshwar)
(Narrated by Akshita Rajeshwar)