Creator of Science?!

Krishna: “Science” has two aspects to it.

One: The principles with which this universe came into existence and run by it.

Two: The process with which we study this universe.

If you take the first aspect, the answer is ‘we don’t know yet’!

If you take the second one, the answer is ‘human beings’.

If we try to pin point someone, you end up as a failure. Because science as a subject originated in human minds at various points of time and at various places maybe simultaneously.

Some say

“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 Latin-speaking Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but continued to thrive in the Greek-speaking Eastern Roman (or Byzantine) Empire. Aided by translations of Greek texts, the Hellenistic worldview was preserved and absorbed into the Arabic-speaking Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age. The recovery and assimilation of Greek works and Islamic inquiries into Western Europe from the 10th to 13th century revived the learning of natural philosophy in the West.

Natural philosophy was transformed during the Scientific Revolution in 16th- to 17th-century Europe,] as new ideas and discoveries departed from previous Greek conceptions and traditions.The New Science that emerged was more mechanistic in its worldview, more integrated with mathematics, and more reliable and open as its knowledge was based on a newly defined scientific method. More "revolutions" in subsequent centuries soon followed. The chemical revolution of the 18th century, for instance, introduced new quantitative methods and measurements for chemistry. In the 19th century, new perspectives regarding the conservation of energy, age of the Earth, and evolution came into focus. And in the 20th century, new discoveries in genetics and physics laid the foundations for new subdisciplines such as molecular biology and particle physics. Moreover, industrial and military concerns as well as the increasing complexity of new research endeavors soon ushered in the era of "big science," particularly after the Second World War (1).

However,

In prehistoric times, knowledge and technique were passed from generation to generation in an oral tradition. For instance, the domestication of maize for agriculture has been dated to about 9,000 years ago in southern Mexico, before the development of writing systems. Similarly, archaeological evidence indicates the development of astronomical knowledge in preliterate societies. Therefore you have no documents to show evidence that this is the first person who founded science as a subject.

Several countries in the East claim Western societies don’t take into consideration the Eastern primary contribution to science while writing the history of science. They list several things as their contributions.

Mathematical achievements from Mesopotamia had some influence on the development of mathematics in India, and there were confirmed transmissions of mathematical ideas between India and China, which were bidirectional. Nevertheless, the mathematical and scientific achievements in India and particularly in China occurred largely independently. from those of Europe and the confirmed early influences that these two civilizations had on the development of science in Europe in the pre-modern era were indirect, with Mesopotamia and later the Islamic World acting as intermediaries (2).The arrival of modern science, which grew out of the Scientific Revolution, in India and China and the greater Asian region in general can be traced to the scientific activities of Jesuit missionaries who were interested in studying the region's flora and fauna during the 16th to 17th century.

The history of science and technology in the Indian subcontinent begins with the prehistoric human activity of the Indus valley civilization to the early Indian states and empires. The religious texts of the Vedic period [The Vedic period, or the Vedic age ( c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE (3)), is the period in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedic literature, including the Vedas] provide evidence for the use of large numbers .

Then

Thales is considered as the father of Science (ancient)

Galileo Galilei is considered the father of modern science due to his accomplishments and contributions to science. In all textbooks of the western world, the Italian physicist Galileo Galilee ( 1564–1642) is presented as the father of the scientific method.

Aristotle is considered by many to be the first scientist, although the term postdates him by more than two millennia. In Greece in the fourth century BC, he pioneered the techniques of logic, observation, inquiry and demonstration(4).

These are only assumptions. Because, again, some people say their countrymen did ‘work in science’ before these people did.

For instance, Ibn al-Haytham is considered as a pioneer of modern optics. He was a forerunner to Galileo as a physicist, almost five centuries earlier, according to Prof. S.M. Razaullah Ansari (India). Also known as Alhazen, this brilliant Arab scholar from the 10th – 11th century, made significant contributions to the principles of optics, astronomy and mathematics, and developed his own methodology: experimentation as another mode of proving the basic hypothesis or premise (5).

When things happened when there were no records to show who did what, and who was the first person who did something related to science, how can you tell who created, discovered, founded or whatever word you use to describe it?

SO using the word ”human beings’’ is more appropriate while describing the second aspect.

Footnotes:

1. History of science - Wikipedia
2. http:// Joseph, George G. (2011). "The history of mathematics: Alternative perspectives". The Crest of the Peacock: Non-European Roots of Mathematics (3rd ed.). New Jersey: Princeton University Press. pp. 418–449. ISBN 9780691135267.
3. Vedic period - Wikipedia
4. History of science: The first scientist - Nature
5. Ibn al-Haytham’s scientific method