- Universology
Universology literally means "the science of the
universe ." It is the ongoing study of the principles and truths that interconnect all domains of humanknowledge . Popularizing universologic science was a life's work for 19th century intellectualStephen Pearl Andrews , a futuristutopia n. The word can be used synonymously withconsilience , a termEdward Osborne Wilson has popularized with his writings elucidating the apparent unity of all knowledge. [The word can be so used, but whether one ought to so use it is a different matter.]In recent years, Dr.
Mamoru Mohri ,Japan 's firstastronaut and Director of Japan'sNational Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation , has popularized and expanded on universology. For Mohri the universological worldview was an epiphany after seeing the planet from space on two missions in the 1990s, and he has become the chief proponent of universology today. "Everything in this universe is part of an uninterrupted sequence of events" Mohri has said.Universology, with its relativist and human-centered perspective, has vast implications for
religion ,philosophy and the practice of natural and social science.In 1872 Andrews published "The Basic Outline of Universology" which was subtitled "An introduction to the newly discovered science of the universe, its elementary principles, and the first stages of their development in the special sciences."
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