h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Relgion is a human behaviour founded upon a belief in an unknown power resulting in affection and action intended by the believer to influence the unknown power favorably towards himself.

Philosophy is the continuous endless search for the programming that exists or might exist or should exist in everything in the light of speculative reason.

Science is the continuous endless search for the programming that exists or might exist or should exist in everything by observation and experimentation.

Susma Rio Sep

This reminds me of something that Mortimer J. Adler wrote in one of his books. Although, I yhink that a theory would more likely be fit into the category of philosophy and not science.