What is Science?

What is Science?

This is a question commonly asked in the beginning of the year by almost every science teacher. We all think that we know what is science, but fail to tell anybody in clear terms all on a sudden “What is Science?” It’s natural, because Science is like that. Somebody truly said, “Science tells the first word of everything, and the last word of nothing.” Here are some definitions of Science: The word science comes from the Latin "scientia," meaning knowledge. According to Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, the definition of science is "knowledge attained through study or practice," or "knowledge covering general truths of the operation of general laws, esp. as obtained and tested through scientific method [and] concerned with the physical world." The systematic study of humans and their environment based on the deductions and inferences which can be made, and the general laws which can be formulated, from reproducible observations and measurements of events and parameters within the universe. (Macquarie Dictionary) Is science the ultimate truth? The answer is no! We are constantly searching for the ultimate truth through science. But the fact s that, the truth which we believed yesterday may not be true today and today’s truth maynot be true tomorrow