sci-, -science, -sciently, -scientific, -scientifically, -scient, -sciently +
(Latin: to know, to learn; knowledge)
No knowledge of a science can be properly acquired until the terminology of that science is mastered, and this terminology is in the main of Greek and Latin origin.
—Spencer Trotter
prescience
Knowledge of events before they happen; foreknowledge, foresight; especially, as a divine attribute.
prescient
1. Having foreknowledge or foresight; foreseeing.
2. Of, pertaining to, or arising from prescience.
Those who are prescient claim to have the gifts of foresight, clairvoyance, premonition, prophecy, or prescience.
presciently
1. Descriptive of forethought or foreknowledge of events.
2. A reference to human anticipation of the course of events.
Pro scientia et religione.
For science and religion.
Motto of Denver University, Colorado, USA.
pseudoscience
1. An activity resembling science but based on fallacious assumptions.
2. A theory or method doubtfully, or mistakenly, held to be scientific.
3. A theory, methodology, or practice that is considered to be without scientific foundation.
Quotes: Science, Scientists
Scientists are people who prolong life so other people will have time to pay for the gadgets that are invented by them:
science quotes.
Religio, libertas et scientia.
Religion, liberty, and knowledge.
Motto of Cedar Crest College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA.
sanctitas, scientia, sanitas
Holiness, knowledge, health.
Motto of Marywood University, Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA.
Sanitas, scientia, sanctitas.
Health, knowledge, holiness.
Motto of Gannon University, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA.
science
1. The systematic observation of natural events and conditions in order to discover facts about them and to formulate laws and principles based on these facts.
2. The state or fact of knowing; knowledge or cognizance of something specified or implied; also, with wider reference, knowledge (more or less extensive) as a personal attribute.
3. Knowledge acquired by study; acquaintance with or mastery of any area of learning.
In modern use, often treated as synonymous with "Natural and Physical Science", and therefor restricted to those branches of study that relate to the phenomena of the material universe and their laws, sometimes with implied exclusion of pure mathematics.
scientaster
A petty or inferior scientist (someone who is supposed to be knowing and skillful).
scienter
Knowingly, with knowledge.
Scientia.
Knowledge.
Motto of Northwestern College of Chriopractic, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
Scientia, integritas.
Knowledge, integrity.
Motto of Massachusetts Bay Community College, Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, USA.
Scientiae cedit mare.
The sea yields to knowledge.
Motto of U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, Connecticut, USA.
Related articles about science:
"Science Race";
STEM, Part 1;
STEM, Part 2;
Scientific Specialties.
Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "know, knowledge; learn, learning":
cogni-;
discip-;
gno-;
histor-;
intellect-;
learn, know;
math-;
sap-;
sopho-.
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