The question "what is science" has not secured a scientific answer.

The ultimate discovery of Anglo-Saxon epistemology is that what is recognized as scientific is recognized as such by the majority of scientists. This means that there is no objective method to consider science as the object of science and the scientist as the subject.

The difficulty of knowing science scientifically is increased by the paradoxical nature of this knowledge. Thus: Unprecedented progress in knowledge is accompanied by incredible progress in ignorance.

The progress of the beneficial aspects of scientific knowledge coincides with the progress of harmful and deadly characteristics.

The increased progress of the powers of science is accompanied by an increasing social weakness of scientists to participate in the shaping and control of these powers.
Power is fragmented at the level of research, but it operates in a concentrated and interconnected manner with politics and the economy.

The progress of the natural sciences brings regression and affects social and personal problems...

...Ultimately, and this is the most important, the process of fragmented knowledge-power tends to lead, if there is no resistance from within the sciences themselves, to a total transformation of the meaning and function of knowledge. Knowledge is no longer created to be thought, contemplated, and discussed as human beings in order to sharpen our vision of the world and illuminate our actions within it, but it is produced to be stored in databases and handled by anonymous forces...

Edgar Morin