There’s that quote Adam Savage always says that goes something like “the difference between ‘science’ and ‘goofing off’ is writing it down”.

I’ve always liked that sentiment, since it sort of works to “ungatekeep” science. It’s easy to be intimidated by the seeming monolith of “science”, but fundamentally science basically boils down to “doing, testing, and measuring something” and it doesn’t really matter what that “something” actually is.