5. What are the specific characteristics of Science?

The science — is the sphere of human activity in which knowledge of reality (the nature, society, thinking) allowing proofs and empirical check is systematized and generalized.

It is the whole diverse world of human knowledge which allows the person to transform the nature, and to adapt it for satisfaction of the escalating material and spiritual needs.

It is the difficult system of research activity directed on production of new knowledge.

It is the social institute organizing efforts of hundred thousand scientists and researchers, giving the knowledge, experience, creative energy to comprehension of laws of the nature, society and the person.

1.The science is UNIVERSAL — it means that it reports knowledge, true for all universum under those conditions under which they are got by the person.

2. The science is FRAGMENTARY — it means that studies not life as a whole, and various fragments of reality or its parameters, and itself shares on separate disciplines. . Each science is a certain projection to the world, as shown a highlighting areas, of interest to scientists at present.

3. The science has GENEREL VALUE— it means that knowledge received by it is suitable for all people, and its language — unambiguous as the science seeks to fix as much as possible accurately the terms that promotes association of the people living in the most different corners of a planet.

4. The science doesn't depend on a certain person — it means that not specific features of the scientist, not his nationality or the place of residence aren't defining for the end results of scientific knowledge.

5. The science is SYSTEMATIC — it means that it has a certain structure, instead of is an incoherent set of parts.

6. The science represents incomplete process — it means that the scientific knowledge infinitely grows, however it can't reach absolute truth after which there will be already nothing to investigate.

7. The science keeps continuity — it means that new knowledge definitely and by certain rules corresponds to old knowledge.

8. The science is subject to criticism —it means that is always ready to call into question and to reconsider the even the most fundamental results.

9. The science is RELIABLE — it means that its conclusions demand, allow and check by the defined rules formulated in it.

10. The science doesn't depend on morals — it means that scientific truth is neutral in the moral and ethic, but moral estimates promote receiving knowledge (ethics of the scientist demand from it intellectual honesty and courage in the course of truth search), or lead to activity improvement on its application.

6. Fundamental (Basic) and Applied researches.

Modern science — difficult and diverse system of separate scientific disciplines. The scientists studying development of science, total them some thousands which can be united in two following spheres: Fundamental (Basic) and Applied sciences.

Basic sciences have the purpose to study (to get knowledge about ) the laws of the world regardless of interests and needs of the person.

Applied sciences are aimed at development of methods of application of the knowledge of objective laws of the world received by fundamental (basic) science for satisfaction of requirements and interests of people.

Each science is characterized by own features of knowledge activity. Sciences differ with knowledge subject, means and knowledge methods, forms of result of the knowledge, those systems of values, ideals, methodological installations, styles of thinking which function in this science and define the relation of scientists and to knowledge process, and to a welfare background of science.

Depending on an object of research distinguish natural, technical and the humanities.

In the historical development there are processes of differentiation and integration of the scientific directions and disciplines.