What is Science?

Below is a compilation of student responses to the question What is Science?, posed on the first day of the class Quantum Mechanics for the Myriad.

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Fall 2009

 * 1) Richard Feynman: Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
 * 2) Adam Krellenstein: Science is an (empirically) extremely effective method, and associated culture, dedicated to discovering the mechanisms which drive natural phenomena.
 * 3) Herbert Bernstein: Science is bullshit. Verifiable BS, of course. The current sciences descend from work of rich guys in 17th c. Europe and are quite effective at producing consistent results. consistency is not Truth, not even truth...
 * 4) Nicholas Schachter: Science is the study of anything you want.
 * 5) Jonah Kellman: Science is the research and study of stuff that leads to answers of questions about life, the universe and everything.
 * 6) Grace Rosen: Science is the process of questioning the natural world and systematically producing answers to those questions.
 * 7) Jake Hawkesworth: Science is the name for any area of study that could be approached systematically.
 * 8) Devon Ingraham-Adie: Science is the process of universe understanding itself
 * 9) Morgan Drewniany: Science is the process of answering questions in the world.
 * 10) Ethan Gooding: Science is the search for physical proof for abstract ideas.
 * 11) Brenna Sommer: Science is the current accepted process for explaining phenomena with a focus on finding repeatable results.
 * 12) Nathan Holiday: Science is a way of using intellectual creativity to progress from observing phenomena to explaining phenomena with the aim of discerning the underlying principles by which existence operates.
 * 13) Kathi Pappas: Science is explaining phenomena in ways that can be proven.
 * 14) Tyler Ogden: Science is the human quest for non-human answers on the functioning of the universe.
 * 15) Brian Martin: Science is a specific Western framework that attempts to discover laws and rules about our environment.
 * 16) Nina Glasov: Science is the malleable set of rules we use to attempt to observe and understand the universes around and within us.
 * 17) Ryan Costello: The method of study of things that can be proven to an extent.
 * 18) Achyut Shrestha: It is science when there is some 'study' of any particular topic is involved.
 * 19) Cass King: Science is the most comprehensive method of understanding, developed by an organism that is sixty percent fruit fly and thirty percent sponge.
 * 20) Science is the search for fewer and fewer principles that explain more and more when interpolated using pure logic