[ Science! ]

I heard this recently, I can’t remember where, but it’s kind of stuck with me:

“Science” is a series of steps, taken by people, committed to being honest and being transparent about those steps, to check out a hypothesis. 

Science should be a bit mysterious (it’s not easy), but also, others should be able to take the same steps to test the conclusion.

So, science might be a verb: it’s something you do.  And those steps taken to do that science, others can replicate.

(Does anyone else from the 1980s, when you see or say “Science!”, think of Thomas Dolby?)