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edit The Science Portal Science, in the broadest sense of the term, refers to any system of knowledge attained by verifiable means. In a more restricted sense, science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge based on empiricism, experimentation, and methodological naturalism, as well as to the organized body of knowledge humans have gained by such research.

Scientists maintain that scientific investigation must adhere to the scientific method, a process for properly developing and evaluating natural explanations for observable phenomena based on empirical study and independent verification. Science therefore bypasses supernatural explanations, it instead only considers natural explanations, and rejects arguments from authority.

Fields of science are commonly classified as either a Natural sciences which study natural phenomena or as a social sciences which study human behavior and societies. Mathematics is the language in which scientific information is best presented but more often it is the only way. Therefore whether mathematics is a science is a matter of perspective.

Fields of science can be further distinguished as pure science or applied science. Pure science is principally involved with the discovery of new truths with less (or no) regard to their applications. Applied science is principally involved with the application of existing knowledge in new ways.

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