Could any one define science?

Question

Could any one define science?

Answer 1

Science is an process used to discover, learn and understand that which is studied.  It uses facts, empirical data, repeatability, falsifiability, etc. to reach a conclusion in the most objective manner possible.

I'm almost certainly leaving something out, but I think that covers it in a broad stroke.

Answer 2

The use of Technology for a logical reason and the good of man

Answer 3

The methodical study of God's handiwork. Right thinking includes God.

Answer 4

The same concept of science can be expressed in a number of different ways.

James Randi came up with this one, and I agree it is a good working definition: "Science is a search for basic truths about the Universe, a search which develops statements that appear to describe how the Universe works, but which are subject to correction, revision, adjustment, or even outright rejection, upon the presentation of better or conflicting evidence."  The above definition indirectly references the principle of falsifiability which almost always serves as a decisive way to separate pseudoscience from actual science. It also correctly represents science as a self-correcting process of natural investigation which depends not on dogma but evidence to support it.

Here's another good definition dealing with the underlying assumptions of scientific inquiry:

Science is a very narrow discipline that seeks to pose answerable questions about the physical universe.  In other words, science is a way of knowing about the physical universe that assumes the physical world can be explained through natural causes and effects.We make three major assumptions as practicing scientists:

1. There is a real physical universe that exists outside our bodies.

2. This physical world can be observed, tested, and explained using our five senses.

3. There are natural causes and effects in this physical world.

Answer 5

A theory dubbed as fact regardless of the fact that its based on our perception of reality.

Answer 6

The effort to discover, understand, or to understand better, how the physical world works, with observable physical evidence as the basis of that understanding. It is done through observation of existing phenomena, and/or through experimentation that tries to simulate phenomena under controlled conditions.

Answer 7

–noun

1. a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws: the mathematical sciences.  

2. systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation.  

3. any of the branches of natural or physical science.  

4. systematized knowledge in general.  

5. knowledge, as of facts or principles; knowledge gained by systematic study.  

6. a particular branch of knowledge.  

7. skill, esp. reflecting a precise application of facts or principles; proficiency.  

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[Origin: 1300–50; ME < MF < L scientia knowledge, equiv. to scient- (s. of sciéns), prp. of scīre to know + -ia -ia]

Answer 8

no