Fundamental science

Fundamental science (or basic, pure science) is the part of science that describes the most basic objects, forces, relations between them and laws governing them, such that all other phenomena may be in principle derived from them, following the logic of scientific reductionism, almost every time they say that fundamental science is the physics (chemistry is sometimes included). There is a difference between fundamental science and applied science (or practical science). Fundamental science, in contrast to applied science, is defined as a fundamental knowledge it develops. Fundamental science is the heart of all discoveries, and its progress is based on well controlled experiments. Fundamental science is dependent upon deductions from demonstrated truths, or is studied without regard to practical applications.

In medicine

Main article: Medicine § Basic sciences

Main article: Biomedical research § Preclinical research

Pure sciences of medicine include e.g. anatomy and histology. Preclinical research is research in medical pure science, which precedes the clinical trials, and is almost purely based on theory and animal experiments.

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Citations and notes

Further reading

• Henry James Clarke, The fundamental science. 1885.

See also

• Exact science
• Fundamental research
• Hard science