Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary defines science as “knowledge attained through study or practice,” or “knowledge covering general truths of the operation of general laws, as obtained and tested through scientific method and concerned with the physical world.” Science is a practice that is designed to break things down and analyze their pieces one by one in order to gain knowledge from them. Science can be considered sterile orderly and repetitive. The procedures of science are ritualistic. The properties, rules, and scientific method are repeated like mantras or chants in scientific writing. Every trial in an experiment is tediously preformed over and over again with the unbreakable faith that the results will produce significant and useful information. When you think about it, science is a little bit like religion. There are a lot of rituals, cleansing, praying for the best, and nonsensical babbling and motions. Science even contains cryptic symbols like religion. However, the beauty of science is in the observations, the discoveries and the innovation. Because much like an artist, a scientist must build her vision in order to see it come to fruition and let it be shared with others through out the world.
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