ABSTRACT
The place to start is to query what is science and what does it do? This would then lead to answering the question of what a scientific life is. As a working definition, science is a word derived from the Latin word scientia, meaning ‘knowledge’. At my local library in Horbury, West Yorkshire, when I was a boy, the entrance door had above it “Knowledge is power”, a statement which always fascinated me. Power over what? I asked myself. That no mention was made specifically about science and the link to the Latin word scientia and to knowledge did not register with me then. Science finds out knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Since it is done by people, I have found it fascinating to consider whether science can be objective. I think that through measured data, and its careful preservation, it can be.
