Humanities vs. Science — What's the Difference?

Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the time.

Science (from Latin scientia 'knowledge') is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.The earliest roots of science can be traced to Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3000 to 1200 BCE. Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but was preserved in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age.

Humans considered as a group; the human race.

The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena

The condition or quality of being human.

Such activities restricted to a class of natural phenomena

The quality of being humane; benevolence.

A systematic method or body of knowledge in a given area

A humane characteristic, attribute, or act.

(Archaic) Knowledge, especially that gained through experience.

The languages and literatures of ancient Greece and Rome; the classics.

(countable) A particular discipline or branch of learning, especially one dealing with measurable or systematic principles rather than intuition or natural ability.

Those branches of knowledge, such as philosophy, literature, and art, that are concerned with human thought and culture.

Specifically the natural sciences.

Plural of humanity

Knowledge gained through study or practice; mastery of a particular discipline or area.

(obsolete) classical studies: the study of Ancient Greek and Latin, their literature, etc.

The fact of knowing something; knowledge or understanding of a truth.

The study of language, literature, the arts, history, and philosophy, sometimes including religion.

(uncountable) The collective discipline of study or learning acquired through the scientific method; the sum of knowledge gained from such methods and discipline.

Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills);

(uncountable) Knowledge derived from scientific disciplines, scientific method, or any systematic effort.

The scientific community.

Synonym of sweet science

Obsolete spelling of scion

To cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct.

To use science to solve a problem.

Knowledge; knowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts.

Accumulated and established knowledge, which has been systematized and formulated with reference to the discovery of general truths or the operation of general laws; knowledge classified and made available in work, life, or the search for truth; comprehensive, profound, or philosophical knowledge.

Especially, such knowledge when it relates to the physical world and its phenomena, the nature, constitution, and forces of matter, the qualities and functions of living tissues, etc.; - called also natural science, and physical science.

Any branch or department of systematized knowledge considered as a distinct field of investigation or object of study; as, the science of astronomy, of chemistry, or of mind.

Art, skill, or expertness, regarded as the result of knowledge of laws and principles.

To cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct.

A particular branch of scientific knowledge;

Ability to produce solutions in some problem domain;