Topic outline of science
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- For a more comprehensive list, see the List of science topics.
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 organised body of knowledge humans have gained by such research.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to science:
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- Main article: Science
Empirical science (typically what is meant by the word "science"). The two main branches of science are:
- Natural science - studies natural phenomena, including biological life
- Social science - studies human behavior and societies
[edit] Natural sciences
[edit] Biology (aka Biological science)
- Biochemistry
- Biophysics
- Botany
- Cellular biology
- Ecology
- Medicine
- Microbiology
- Molecular biology
- Physiology
- Zoology
[edit] Physical sciences
[edit] Social sciences
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[edit] Formal sciences
- Logic - see the List of basic topics in logic
- Mathematics - sometimes referred to as the "third science". See the List of basic mathematics topics
- and the theoretical branches of
[edit] Applied sciences
- Engineering - see the List of basic engineering topics
- Technology - see the List of basic technology topics
- Main article: History of science
- Underlying and unifying principles of the biological sciences:
- Main list: List of scientists
- Aristotle
- Archimedes
- Andreas Vesalius
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Galileo Galilei
- Johannes Kepler
- René Descartes
- Isaac Newton
- Leonhard Euler
- Pierre-Simon Laplace
- Alexander von Humboldt
- Charles Darwin
- James Clerk Maxwell
- Marie Curie
- Albert Einstein
- Linus Pauling
- John Bardeen
- Frederick Sanger
- Main article: List of science topics
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