What is "Science"?

Modern understanding of what makes a science is a matter of substantial dispute. Some people equate the unearthing of facts as science, while others view science as exerting a defining power over the universe. A surprising number of people believe anything printed in a science textbook, regardless of its origin, clearly oblivious to the fact that science is not really proof of anything, but only the record of the quest for truth about it. Takayoshi Amano (2007, p. 2) states that science's objectives are "to unravel fundamental principles of mechanism that Nature presents to us, and to accumulate or establish knowledge whic

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