Scholars argue over whether science is a body of knowledge, a collection of techniques, a social and intellectual process, a way of knowing, a strictly defined method, and so forth. These arguments are not very interesting to me, since I accept all of these elements as valid partial visions of science.

Derry, Gregory N. What Science Is & How It Works.

Ewing, NJ, USA: Princeton University Press, 1999. p vii.