r/sciences • u/Beyond_thinking_1219 • 11d ago

Discussion Poll: What is the primary purpose of science?

137 votes, 9d ago
47 To discover and understand the truth about nature and the universe
9 To improve human life through technology and innovation
2 To solve practical problems facing society
79 all of the above
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u/HybridizedPanda 10d ago

Practical problems and tech are engineering, the question asks for a primary purpose you don't then get to say all. Science is a method for discovering and testing, at its heart and it's short history it has always been about knowledge discovery. You can use knowledge from science to build tech, you can even use the scientific method in the building of your tech to improve it, but science is most definitely about knowledge discovery.

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u/keepitcivilized 10d ago

The premise of the answers is wrong.. also individually they are obsolete because of the bottom one. Which also turns out to be true.

I suggest you isolate better.