Should I leave such a lacuna and present my herbarium to the Museum of Hamburg, without the boryana variabilis? The record of the first appears likely to be lost in the lacuna of 934 AH. The word is derived from lacuna, a cavity or hollow, a blank, hiatus or gap. Here there is a lacuna of sixteen short lines in the inscription.
Science is an integral part of our everyday life. But why is science so important to us and to the way in which we live? Without science we would be missing out on a multitude of different inventions and knowledge that have helped us to progress in life and learn about our world.
Science in the broadest sense refers to any system of objective knowledge. In a more restricted sense, science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge based on the scientific method, as well as to the organized body of knowledge humans have gained by such research.-B [edit]. 1  The extensive literature addressed to the definition or characterization of science is filled with inconsistent points of view and demonstrates that an adequate definition is not easy to attain. 2  Part of the difficulty arises from the fact that the meaning of science is not fixed, but is dynamic.