The phrase "aims of science" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the objectives or goals that guide scientific inquiry and research.
Example: "The aims of science include understanding natural phenomena, developing theories, and improving technology for the benefit of society."
Alternatives: "goals of science" or "objectives of science".
In 1961 he wrote Foresight and Understanding: An Enquiry into the Aims of Science.
COOLIDGE PRAISES AIMS OF SCIENCE; Search for Truth Not Feared, He Tells Association in Portico Talk.
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A focus on confirmatory, statistically significant results undermines the aims of science and its ability to self-correct.
We will cover issues in observation, experiment, and reasoning, questions about the aims of science, scientific change, and the relations between science and values.
What scientists think they are up to affects the way they plead for public money, and how far government and the public understand the aims of science affects how well scientists succeed.
We believe that societal impact should be explicitly valued when designing and doing research, since one of the roles, if not the major aim, of science is to help confront grand societal challenges.
The core aim of science education should be to ensure students leave school with the skills and confidence to discuss and shape scientific and technological advances in society, whatever their career choices.
The two most prominent current philosophical methods Phenomenology and conceptual analysis tend to regard this aim as distinct from, and (at least in part) prior to, the aim of science.
For all their scientific eminence, their argument was philosophical rather than scientific, springing as it did from the conviction that the highest aim of science is to describe the relationship between different sensory perceptions without the introduction of unobservable concepts.
Because the aim of science is to achieve correct predictions about observables, there is no need to assume the extra risks involved in commitment to the existence of unobservables.
