Robert Win - Natural Sciences

“Science is built with facts just as a house is built with bricks, but a collection of facts cannot be called a science any more than a pile of bricks can be called a house.” (Henri Poincare, 1854-1912)

Here Poincare is saying that Science is everywhere and part of everything and that Science is not just a concept but physical reality. He also is saying that Science is the simplified and organised form of information and facts, and it is this organisaton and simplification which defines science from just information. This sentance was probably used to explain to ordinary people the definition of Science by Poincare, during his lifetime, as science was still conducted with knowledge and control by only a small amount of people at that time (scientists).

This statement, that science is part of and involved in everything, can be demonstrated by the act of throwing a ball at a target. If a child were to throw a ball, there would be no science here through the childs eyes, and the child would likely miss the target, and if the child was asked how it all happend scientifically, he/she would probably be confused by the question. This is because the child is unable to organise and simplify the information he/she receives through sense perseption, and has little to no past experience or understanding, advanced education to understand how the ball was able to be released and travel . The child is unable to organise and structure the information received, because of missing key factors (education, experience, development).

Through the mind of a physician, the ball being thrown at a target would be analysed and all the factors involving the range, speed, direction of a ball would be estimated and pre planned before and during the actual throw, because the physicisan has experience, education, and has physically developed which allows him/her to use his sense perception and uses all these to organise the information (which is the basis of scienece) received to be able to accurately throw the ball and hit the target.

The physcian structures his infomation, the child does not.