towards a definition of science

 

I would define science at its best as a quest for understanding emerging from Christian scholarship and more specifically from the university system established worldwide by the Catholic Church, an approach to the study of existence, an aspiration to assess reality using observational data, a principled methodology underpinned by the religiously derived notion of the primacy of truth, to wit "Thou shalt not bear false witness."

Without the primacy of truth there is no science.