Is science the only way to knowledge?

[T.J.]

The eight ball's a lying piece of crap. It told me I'd be a billionaire, cyborg, fighter pilot by now. Way to stomp all over a kid's dreams. No really, I mean it, good job. Sadistic fuck

It always told me to try again. Damn slut.

[Einharjar]

Knowledge is defined as "information"
Information is at its core, values that equal a sum. The universe is made entirely of information. One atom will have a value for its atomic weight and energy, and the sub atomic particles that make the said atom have their values as well. You can keep scaling this up til you reach the "human experience" and find that everything we know is all values and numbers... And if quantum mechanics has it right? All frequencies.

There are several ways to obtain information for use as knowledge.

Science - process of hypothesis and experimentation. Use logic to predict, test the prediction. Results will always yield information, even if the prediction is a failure.
Heritage of science - through study, acquire information and data already calculated and/or proven. Data recorded by other entities can be passed onto kin without experience, even data not yet tested.
Experience - naked information. Info acquired by action X time. This is observed information much like science, but without predicting logics as a precursor. Experience can lead to Science, a process in wich you attempt to validate the information you've recorded to know its greater whole (scuh as observations of super fluid, and then working the logc to determine why the observations were so - the observed to be true but why, idea).

[MindForgedManacle]

Knowledge is not defined as information. o.o

[Bucky Ball]

The way to knowledge is by reading Nancy Drew.
Confucius say.

[Cato]

Knowledge is not defined as information. o.o

C'mon Vinny, bet you can't differentiate between knowledge and information.

[JDFlood]

The scientific method is a means of differentiating perceptions, observations, and conclusions that are true from those that are false. Since human senses and conclusions are so frequently incorrect, we developed the scientific method to sort them out. It works extremely well, and since it is about human perceptions and conclusions, yes it is about everything. It shows conclusively that the earth is not flat, allowed us to develop iPhones, and has showed use there is not a shread of evidence supporting the existence of god.