5-547: The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture is an Israeli prize awarded annually for excellence in academic and professional achievements that have far-reaching influence and make a significant contribution to society. Prizes are awarded in the following five categories: the Exact Sciences , Life Sciences , Social Sciences , Humanities , and Culture and the Arts. The prizes, in a total amount of one million dollars, are sponsored by
10-621: The A.M.N. Foundation for the Advancement of Science, Art and Culture in Israel , under the auspices of and in cooperation with the Prime Minister of Israel . It is awarded to Israeli citizens, and in certain circumstances to non-citizens who reside in Israel and consider Israel as their permanent home. The EMET Prize is administered by the Award Committee, composed of representatives appointed by
15-437: The logical positivists took as paradigms of rational and objective knowledge . These sciences have been practiced in many cultures from antiquity to modern times. Given their ties to mathematics, the exact sciences are characterized by accurate quantitative expression, precise predictions and/or rigorous methods of testing hypotheses involving quantifiable predictions and measurements . The distinction between
20-648: The Prime Minister and the A.M.N. Foundation. Currently, the Chairman of the Award Committee is retired Supreme Court Justice Jacob Turkel . Exact Sciences The exact sciences or quantitative sciences , sometimes called the exact mathematical sciences , are those sciences "which admit of absolute precision in their results"; especially the mathematical sciences . Examples of the exact sciences are mathematics, optics , astronomy , and physics , which many philosophers from Descartes , Leibniz , and Kant to
25-516: The quantitative exact sciences and those sciences that deal with the causes of things is due to Aristotle , who distinguished mathematics from natural philosophy and considered the exact sciences to be the "more natural of the branches of mathematics." Thomas Aquinas employed this distinction when he said that astronomy explains the spherical shape of the Earth by mathematical reasoning while physics explains it by material causes . This distinction
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