Definition: Inventor, Invention and Science

INVENTOR: Someone who is the first to think of or find out something new.

INVENTION: The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed, as the invention of logarithms or the invention of the aret of printing. An invention is an object, process or technique which displays an element of novelty. An invention may sometimes be based on earlier developments, collaborations or ideas and the process of invention requires at least the awareness that an existing concept or method can be modified or transformed into an invention. However, some inventions also represent a radical breakthrough in science or technology which extends the boundaries of human knowledge.

SCIENCE: Knowledge attained through study or practice, or knowledge covering general truths of the operation o general laws, which is obtained and tested through scientific method concerned with the physical world.