Science, Technology and Society

Science
 As an idea. It includes ideas, theories, and all
available systematic explanations and
observations about the natural and physical
world.
 As an intellectual activity. It encompasses a
systematic and practical study of the natural
and physical world. This process of study
involves systematic observation and
experimentation.
Science
 As a body of knowledge. It is a subject or
discipline, a field of study, or a body of
knowledge that deals with the process of
learning about the natural and physical world.
This is what we refer to as school science.
 As a personal and social activity. This
explains that science is both knowledge and
activities done by human beings to develop
better understanding of the world around
them. It is a mean to improve life and to
survive in life. It is interwoven with people’s
life
Scientific Revolution
 Was the period of enlightenment
when the developments in the
fields of Mathematics, Physics,
Astronomy, Biology, and
Chemistry, transformed the views
of society about nature.
Influences to Scientific Revolution

Science
Ideas

Humans Society
Variables that Influences the Development of
Science ideas, Science Discoveries and
Technology
Science ideas - Science
Discoveries - Technology

Passion to Passion to
Know Discover

Critical
Creativity Curiosity
Thinking
Do you believe in
extra-terrestrial
being?
To know that we know what
we know, and to know that
we do not know what we do
not know, that is true
knowledge.
Nicolaus Copernicus
 Born: 19 February 1473, Torun, Poland
 Died: 24 May 1543, Frombork, Poland
 Education: University of Padua (1501–1503),
 Known for: Heliocentrism, Quantity theory of
money, Gresham's law
 Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance-era
polymath, who formulated a model of the
universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth
at the center of the universe, in all likelihood
independently of Aristarchus of Samos, who
had formulated such a model some eighteen
centuries earlier.
 “A man who dares to
waste one hour of time
has not discovered the
value of life.”
Charles Darwin
 Born: 12 February 1809, The Mount House,
Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
 Died: 19 April 1882, Home of Charles
Darwin - Down House, Downe, United
Kingdom
 Education: Christ's College
Cambridge (1828–1831), MORE
 Children: Francis Darwin, Anne
Darwin, George Darwin, MORE
 Siblings: Erasmus Alvey Darwin, Marianne
Darwin Parker, MORE
 Charles Robert Darwin, FRS
FRGS FLS FZS was an English
naturalist, geologist and biologist,
best known for his contributions
to the science of evolution. His
proposition that all species of life
have descended over time from
common ancestors is now widely
accepted, and considered a
foundational concept in science.
 “One day, in
retrospect, the years
of struggle will strike
you as the most
beautiful.”
Sigmund Freud
 Born: 6 May 1856, Příbor, Czechia
 Died: 23 September
1939, Hampstead, London, United
Kingdom
 Full name: Sigismund Schlomo
Freud
 Children: Anna Freud, Ernst L.
Freud, Jean Martin Freud, Mathilde
Freud, Oliver Freud, Sophie Freud
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian
neurologist and the founder of
psychoanalysis, a clinical method
for treating psychopathology
through dialogue between a
patient and a psychoanalyst.
Freud was born to Galician Jewish
parents in the Moravian town of
Freiberg, in the Austrian Empire.
“I can calculate the
motion of heavenly
bodies, but not the
madness of people.”
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
 Born: 4 January 1643, Woolsthorpe
Manor House, United Kingdom
 Died: 31 March 1727, Kensington
 Known for: Classical
mechanics, MORE
 Education: Trinity College (1667–
1668), MORE
Sir Isaac Newton PRS was
an English mathematician,
physicist, astronomer,
theologian, and author who is
widely recognized as one of
the most influential scientists
of all time, and a key figure in
the scientific revolution.