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Nature's terms and conditions, which it never agreed to write clearly.
means The branch of knowledge that studies the physical universe—matter, energy, life, and their interactions—through observation, experiment, and testable explanation.
from From Latin natura ('birth, essential quality, the course of things,' itself from nasci, 'to be born') plus scientia ('knowledge,' from scire, 'to know'). The phrase crystallized as a category once 'natural philosophy' — the old umbrella term for studying the physical world — gradually split in the 18th and 19th centuries into the specialized disciplines (physics, chemistry, biology) we now file under 'science' proper, distinguishing them from mathematics, social sciences, and the humanities.
- core promise
- explain reality using evidence, not vibes
- splits into
- physics, chemistry, biology, earth, astronomy
- method
- guess, test, get humbled, repeat
- dirty secret
- most laws are just really good approximations