| 1. | a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws: the mathematical sciences. |
| 2. | systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation. |
| 3. | any of the branches of natural or physical science. |
| 4. | systematized knowledge in general. |
| 5. | knowledge, as of facts or principles; knowledge gained by systematic study. |
| 6. | a particular branch of knowledge. |
| 7. | skill, esp. reflecting a precise application of facts or principles; proficiency. That there is theee definition of science. Therefore, science can be about anything, really. so a scientist doesn't have to do experiments. A scientist is "an expert in science" so you are a scientist if you are an expert in science. Albert Einstein was apparently a "theoretical physicist" and i would say that he was an expert in the rhelm of physics therefore he was a scientist |
