National Science Education Standards. It is the union of science, mathematics, and technology that forms the scientific endeavor and that makes it so successful. Although each of these human enterprises has a character and history of its own, each is dependent on and reinforces the other . . . American Association for the Advancement of Science. Benchmarks for Science Literacy.
Science is one way of knowing about the world.
The unspoken assumption behind the scientific endeavor is that general laws, discoverable by the human mind, exist and govern everything in the physical world. In its most advanced form, science is written in the language of mathematics, and therefore is not always easily accessible to the general public. But, like any other language, the language of science can be translated into simple English. When this is done, the beauty and simplicity of the great scientific laws can be shared by everyone. Science is the body of knowledge about nature that represents the collective efforts, insights, findings, and wisdom of the human race.