science and technology

[esophea]

what is the different between science and technology

[curmudgeon]

Science is knowledge and technology is the application of that knowledge - I think

[Anglika]

Sent me to the dictionaries:


science

• noun 1 the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. 2 a systematically organized body of knowledge on any subject.

— ORIGIN Latin scientia, from scire ‘know’. technology

• noun (pl. technologies) 1 the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes. 2 the branch of knowledge concerned with applied sciences.

— ORIGIN Greek tekhnologia ‘systematic treatment’

[Shorter Oxford Dict.]