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2. Planck's principle - Wikipedia

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   Colloquially, this is often paraphrased as "Science progresses one funeral at a time". Adoption [ edit ] Planck's quote has been used by Thomas Kuhn , Paul Feyerabend , Moran Cerf and others to argue scientific revolutions are non-rational, rather than spread through "mere force of truth and fact".

3. Science - Wikipedia

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   Science is a rigorous, systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the world. Modern science is typically divided into three major branches: the natural sciences (e.g., physics, chemistry, and biology), which study the physical world; the social sciences (e.g., economics, psychology, and sociology), which study individuals ...

4. Scientific method - Wikipedia

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   e. The scientific method is an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century. The scientific method involves careful observation coupled with rigorous scepticism, because cognitive assumptions can distort the interpretation of the observation.

5. Pager - Wikipedia

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   Pager. A pager, also known as a beeper or bleeper, [1] is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays alphanumeric or voice messages. One-way pagers can only receive messages, while response pagers and two-way pagers can also acknowledge, reply to, and originate messages using an internal transmitter. [2]

6. Science (journal) - Wikipedia

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   Science. (journal) Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, [1] is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science [AAAS 2] [2] (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals. [3] It was first published in 1880, is currently circulated weekly and has a subscriber base of around ...

7. Branches of science - Wikipedia

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   The formal sciences are the branches of science that are concerned with formal systems, such as logic, mathematics, theoretical computer science, information theory, systems theory, decision theory, statistics . Unlike other branches, the formal sciences are not concerned with the validity of theories based on observations in the real world ...

8. Outline of science - Wikipedia

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   The following outline is provided as a topical overview of science; the discipline of science is defined as both the systematic effort of acquiring knowledge through observation, experimentation and reasoning, and the body of knowledge thus acquired, the word "science" derives from the Latin word scientia meaning knowledge. A practitioner of ...

9. Page (computer memory) - Wikipedia

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   A page, memory page, or virtual page is a fixed-length contiguous block of virtual memory, described by a single entry in a page table. It is the smallest unit of data for memory management in an operating system that uses virtual memory. Similarly, a page frame is the smallest fixed-length contiguous block of physical memory into which memory ...