There may well be a method to “science” (whatever that is), or acquiring knowledge in general. Is just that we haven’t invented the ‘right’ language to describ

There may well be a method to “science” (whatever that is), or acquiring knowledge in general. Is just that we haven’t invented the ‘right’ language to describe the process with. Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do. —Donald Knuth In as much as software development is theory-building and iterative development is about hypothesis testing/experiment validation/reproduction - it is scientific/empirical. Beyond that ... We are forever stuck with theory, which is never a good enough substitute for practice.