My slides for the seminar about science communication

1. Words Of Science, Science of Words
Why and how to facilitate communication
between science and society.
GRID Open Day
Faculty of Engineering University of Catania
May 9, 2008

2. Science Defined
“A body of knowledge, strictly controlled and systematically
ordered, that allows you to reach objective truth around a given
order of phenomena or concepts.”
pure: done for itself
applied: which has as its object
the practical application of
scientific discoveries
experimental or positive:
based on knowledge
Understanding, knowledge