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Science and the Scientific Attitudeby Paul G. Hewitt Science is the body of knowledge about nature that represents the collective efforts, insights, findings, and wisdom of the human race. Science is not something new but had its beginnings before recorded history when humans first discovered reoccurring relationships around them. Through careful observations of these relationships, they began to know nature and, because of natures dependability, found they could make predictions to enable some control over their surroundings.科学是关于自然地知识总体，它 代表了人类的共同努力、洞察力、研究成果和智慧。科学并不是什么新的东西，在有文字记载的历史以前，当人们最初