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CLASSICAL SCIENCE is the leader in the field of materialistic knowledge. This is generally accepted.
HOWEVER, in the field of idealistic knowledge, the progress of classical science is very modest and unsatisfactory.
You can say anything and everyone has their own opinion, but what is the “highest truth” is not entirely clear. And whether the statement about science as the only form of knowledge is a rather controversial statement. “To know” means to perceive something, and “knowledge” is the expression of it. And what knowledge does not know is given through seeing. So we know through ignorance! But we don't know because of the knowledge! Who knows who doesn't? Science cannot be the ultimate truth because it is based on the past, not the future. With respect.
The scientific method of cognition is the only method that provides Knowledge – i.e., working theories with absolute 100% predictive power. At the same time, knowledge is always objective, i.e. the result of a scientific experiment does not depend on the experimenter's personality.
All this is the opposite of the concept of “ideology”, i.e. the opposite of the author's.
Yes, you can. Popularizers of science, such as Dawkins, are a prime example of this. They have long ago raised science to the level of a clumsy ideology, and this, oddly enough, contradicts science itself. Science is an instrument of cognition. Science does not say what is good and what is bad, science does not answer the question “why?”. Science is just a tool and answers the question ” how?”. To the question ” why?” a person's worldview, for example, religion, is responsible. Science by itself cannot create the same ethics (this is the sphere of philosophy and religion), so even as an ideology, science turns out to be very clumsy and fundamentally false.
It is not that only science gives knowledge. Science provides one kind of knowledge. Scientific knowledge. Its special feature is that it can be checked and refuted or confirmed. Scientific knowledge is never absolutely true, and the tc may vary depending on the research methods.�
There are other types of knowledge. For example, knowledge obtained through revelation or supernatural abilities. However, their peculiarity is that they are not verifiable.