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Which do you think is the most important science?

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Reply 60

h3rmit

Original post by jneill

Canoes.

Just big trousers tbqh. Canoeing is essentially swimming.

Reply 61

Doones

Original post by h3rmit

Just big trousers tbqh. Canoeing is essentially swimming.

Hot air balloon.

Or is that just a big blousy shirt with added baked beans?

Reply 62

h3rmit

Original post by jneill

Or is that just a big blousy shirt with added baked beans?

You took the words right out of my mouth

Chemistry !! :wink:

Chemistry has helped us get a better understanding of why things happen around us. There's a fair bit of biology knowledge which is based on our chemistry knowledge. Without chemistry, we wouldn't have vaccines, we wouldn't have most modern medicine, we wouldn't have such useful things as polymers.

Reply 65

_NMcC_

Every Science has it's purpose, It's hard to call one more important than the other.

. Chemistry is the Science that enables us to manipulate the very fabric of nature.

. Physics is the Science that advances mankind's knowledge about nature.

. Biology is the Science that enables us to understand the mechanics of life.

Maths is the unseen language that binds them all. They are all essentially spin-offs of it.

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Reply 66

Arima

Chemistry

was going to say biology, but bio relies quite heavily on chemi...

Reply 67

Kallisto

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Original post by Arima

Chemistry

was going to say biology, but bio relies quite heavily on chemi...

In terms of the whole biochemistry stuff, I agree with you. But there are also aspects of biology which have no reference to chemistry.

Reply 68

funami

chemistry
It's all around us!

Chemistry!!!

Original post by Cherub012

Psychology.

Lol

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Reply 71

Doones

Original post by funami

chemistry
It's all around us!

Unlike...?

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Reply 72

Kallisto

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Original post by jneill

Without philosophy there is no science. It's at the heart of all knowledge.

Principia is a philosophy text. The clue is in the title.

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Are you talking about Newton's axioms about mechanics?

Anyway, would not considered philosopy as a science, as philosopy means to get wisdom by thinking about things carefully. Modern science incontradiction to it means not thinking about things only, but also to confirm (or not to confirm) certain views by being analytical and applying methods (experiments, tests).

Biology.

maths is commonly considered a science- all of the three heavily depend on this ! would say maths

Reply 75

Sam00

They're all important and to say one is more superior than another is foolish

Reply 76

Doones

Original post by Kallisto

Modern science incontradiction to it means not thinking about things only, but also to confirm (or not to confirm) certain views by being analytical and applying methods (experiments, tests).

How does a scientist get to "a certain view" in the first place? By thinking...

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Reply 77

username2763536

They are all pretty important.Biology will tell you about how an organism works but to understand how life developed originally you need chemistry.Chemistry will tell you about how things react together but if you want a deeper understanding of it then you need physics.All of our modern understanding of atoms is based upon the model used by quantum mechanics which comes from physics.I find each science to be pretty interesting in their own right,there is no need to pick and choose.You can like both biology and physics.

Reply 78

chempals

im gonna have to say chemistry... i hope i dont get a bad reaction :wink:

Reply 79

Absent Agent

Original post by ThePricklyOne

But Philosophy isn't a science...

Well, many people would agree with you there, but to ask what science is the most important is to ask a wrong question, if importance is to be understood as influential here.

Original post by Percypig17

Not exactly a helpful discussion, and predictably most people here are saying Physics because it's the most 'interesting'. However that wasn't the term of the question and interesting has no real bearing on worth or importance.

Whilst it is true that physics has had great importance in engineering etc in the past and today, it's pretty clear that most modern medicines and cures are being designed by specialists in chemistry and biology. Its probable, in fact, that day to day biomedical research has the greatest short term impact on most of us than something like theoretical physics.

If the properties of different materials, the whole Chemistry, has become for the first time the objects that could be predicted from the theory, and not from hypotheses deduced from experiments, could not have been possible without a deep command of Quantum Mechanics.