requested changes the current version uses e g a bbc source for sorta dubious claims neither the lede nor the main text treats various crucial topics namely science of team science science technology and society sociology of scientific knowledge science studies sociology of knowledge romanticism in science humboldtsches bildungsideal humboldtian science positivism dispute crucial issues not treated at all we have a separate stubby entry for wissenschaft btw research criticism of science protoscience merton thesis mertonian norms scholasticism multiple discovery heroic theory of invention and scientific development scientific misconduct research ethics crucial aspect not treated at all so far science journalism the current section about media perspectives is rather amateurish science wars the two cultures white anglo saxon protestant dead white european mengender studies the controversies about female or minority perspetives especially in the stem fields are neither mentioned and need to be treated properly wilhelm dilthey distinction is crucial as well steve woolgar and of cause bruno latour we have never been modern laboratory life science in action for the record calling books published by the harvard university press fringe needs some courage that said the current version is far from being complete i would refer to improve the article instead of defening the status quo if you have an issue with my sources comment them under the reference entry science from latin scientia meaning knowledge is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about nature and the universe modern science is a discovery as well as an invention it was a discovery that nature generally acts regularly enough to be described by laws and even by mathematics and required invention to devise the techniques abstractions apparatus and organization for exhibiting the regularities and securing their law like descriptions j l heilbron in an older and closely related meaning science also refers to a body of knowledge itself of the type that can be rationally explained and reliably applied a practitioner of science is known as a scientist in modern usage science may refer as well to a way of pursuing or producing knowledge not only the knowledge itself especially in the anglophone world science is often restricted to those branches of study that seek to explain the phenomena of the material universe oxford english dictionary the german approach of wissenschaften in the tradition of humboldtian science and humboldtian education ideal is more generic and includes all sort of scholarly endeavours with philosophy still as a common denominator the the two cultures the german positivism dispute and the us science wars refer to ongoing controversies about the role of natural sciences and the humanities the controversies refered as well to the longstanding dominance of male white anglo saxon protestant scholars in e g us universities and the use of dead white european men as role models it has lead to various attempts as in gender studies to involve e g female or minority perspectives in science and as well a backslash defending the important role of the classics bernard knox the oldest dead white european males and other reflections on the classics reprint w w norton company