What is Science?

The Fabric of Space and Time

What is Science? is one of the most simplest questions a child curious to know asks.The question itself seems to be a simple one but when one starts explaining it, the answer seems to be a never ending. So what exactly science is what you will came to know today!

The word 'Science' originates from Latin verb Scientia, meaning 'to know'. The Sanskrit word Vijnana(विज्ञान) expresses similar meanings.

Fewer Definitions of Science are :

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Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers in the preceeding generation . . .As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

                                 ----------Richard Feynman, Nobel-prize-winning physicist,
                                       in The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
                                       as quoted in American Scientist v. 87, p. 462 (1999).

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The systematic observation of natural events and conditions in order to discover facts about them and to formulate laws and principles based on these facts. 2. the organized body of knowledge that is derived from such observations and that can be verified or tested by further investigation. 3. any specific branch of this general body of knowledge, such as biology, physics, geology, or astronomy.

                                -----------Academic Press Dictionary of Science & Technology

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Science is an intellectual activity carried on by humans that is designed to discover information about the natural world in which humans live and to discover the ways in which this information can be organized into meaningful patterns. A primary aim of science is to collect facts (data). An ultimate purpose of science is to discern the order that exists between and amongst the various facts.

           -----------Dr. Sheldon Gottlieb in a lecture series at the University of South Alabama

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