What is the Nature of Science?

It is important to clarify the scientific properties that students want to understand. We can first ask ourselves: what is science and how does it work? And: How can we relate our understanding of science and scientist's work to the goal of science essence?

Topics under each of the following goals combine views on the nature of science. Each topic extends the explanation, examples, and questions of the teacher's review. Achievement goals are discussed and reflected separately here, but it is slightly arbitrary to recognize that teachers do not mean separately teaching goals.

What is the social function of natural science? Does it contain several different forms (eg physics, chemistry, geology, biology etc)? What are their goals? To what extent are the natural sciences influenced by the social and cultural aspects they pursue? How important is natural science? How will our understanding and awareness of natural science change over time? How is the role of natural science in society evolving? How much has changed the nature of natural science (eg, various forms of natural science)? What is the relationship between natural science today and past science? (In the words of Newton, are they standing on the shoulder of the giant?

Industry is a practical relationship between human and nature, natural science, and "theoretical relationship". Industry is the basic form of practice, natural science, and humanities. The industry reveals the true power of mankind Natural science is such "real power" and "possibility of production". Marx established the empirical origin and practical function of natural science and assigned a very important social role to natural science. The power of Marx's analysis transcends all analyzes of the importance of natural science to date, and the deciding factor knows how Marx generalizes genius as objective data of the era about it. Marx did not invent theory, but summarized the history and the experience of modern life. He often refers to "scientific gifts" made to humans by David, Liebig and others.

In German ideology, Marx did a materialistic analysis of the dynamics of advancement in natural science. "Pure" natural science is not a factor of self-sufficiency, its history is completely independent of society. Social practices have advantages in natural science, industrial and social conditions. Natural science has actually achieved the goals and means to achieve them. If Marx called natural science as "human true power" in his early work, then in German ideology then natural science is like the true power of the ruling class. Through general division of labor in the class society, natural science cuts into a kind of "spiritual possibility" of function, production which is independent of material production process. As a factor in progress at a certain stage, the deepening of science and industry represents the foundation of the idealistic natural science penetration.