From Copernicus' 540th birthday -- peronal question: what is sciense?

Today is Copernicus 540th birthday.

 At the time, the prevailing theory, codified by the 1st century philosopher Ptolemy, was geocentrism – the belief, in short, that all celestial bodies revolve around the earth. Undertaking an extensive analysis of the path of the planets overhead, Copernicus argued that in fact it was the sun that was at the center of the solar system.

 During the time he published heliocentric, he got tons of problems. Because there were lots of people in that time who did not believe heliocentric. 

So, what is science? Personally, I think science is the majority of people believe the opinion is true in the society during a period time. However, if someone published some idea or thought which against the current thought in people's mind. People may think about that. But most of people will not trust the new thought until there are more and more people publish some similar thought, and we called those people scientist. Like Copernicus, people trust heliocentric after 100 years from he passed away.

Let me know how do you think what science is. 

 

http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/2013/0219/How-Nicolaus-Copernicus-rewrote-the-rules-of-the-solar-system