The Organic Ties between Biology and Textile Chemistry: Fungi, Enzymes and Green Chemistry

摘要

Science is the curiosity-driven quest to understand the natural world and to explain how we fit into its environment. We know it as the interwoven body of observations, experiment and theory that is used to explain and even predict our how universe has come to be, and our place is in it. For most of recorded human history, what passed as sciences were empirical observations with some attempts made to provide non-supernatural explanations: Thales, Leucippus, Democritus, Aristotle and others from the classical period of Greece all made their attempts, and had dominant influences on accepted explanations of the natural world. Scientific methods as we follow them (as opposed to engineering) date from the Middle Ages with worthies such as Ibn al-Hayam and Roger Bacon being prominent.