Nature of Science: The Evolutional, Hierarchical, and Debatable

摘要

Since time immemorial, science has been evolving, playing an immense role from being a philosophy to a discipline and career. Its nature and categorization into many dimensions ren-der it unique amongst all disciplines. Though the tenets, philosophy, and scienti?c methods of searching for the truth of the physical world make science stand apart within its realm, it encounters heaps of debates. The article focuses on the nature of science while navigating through its evolutionary journey until the present, and the way it emerged as a versatile enterprise holding hierarchical and diagonal relationships among its distinctions. Capturing the veiled philosophical and psychological realities in an exploratory fashion, the article thus tries to bring out the real nature of science concealed within the debates of science.