Editing S.C.I.E.N.C.E. (section)

==Release and reception==
===Commercial response===
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="Thomas">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/science-mw0000595498 |title=''S.C.I.E.N.C.E.'' – Incubus |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=February 28, 2010 
|last=Thomas |first=David}}</ref>
| rev2 = The Daily Vault
| rev2score = B+<ref name=vault>{{cite web |url= http://dailyvault.com/toc.php5?review=676 |title=The Daily Vault Music Reviews : S.C.I.E.N.C.E. |first=Christopher |last=Thelen |work=The Daily Vault |year=1999 |access-date=May 23, 2020}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev3score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Incubus |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music |last=Larkin |first=Colin |author-link=Colin Larkin |publisher=[[Omnibus Press]] |edition=5th concise |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-7432-0169-8}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[The Great Rock Discography]]''
| rev4score = 6/10<ref name="Strong">{{cite book |chapter=Incubus |title=The Great Rock Discography |last=Strong |first=Martin C. |author-link=Martin C. Strong |publisher=[[Canongate Books]] |edition=7th |year=2004 |isbn=1-84195-615-5 |page=731}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Modern Drummer]]''
| rev5score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="md"/>
| rev6 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev6score = 8.7/10<ref name="Pitchfork">{{cite web |url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/i/incubus/science.shtml |title=Incubus: ''S.C.I.E.N.C.E.'' |work=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |access-date=November 20, 2010 |last=Wisdom |first=James P. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030205221149/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/i/incubus/science.shtml |archive-date=February 5, 2003 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev7score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="Kemp">{{cite book |chapter=Incubus |last=Kemp |first=Rob |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |edition=4th |year=2004 |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/403 403–04]}}</ref>
| rev8 = Sputnikmusic
| rev8score = 4.5/5<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/52994/Incubus-S.C.I.E.N.C.E./ |title=Incubus – ''S.C.I.E.N.C.E.'' |website=Sputnikmusic |date=October 30, 2012 |access-date=December 1, 2015 |last=Royal |first=Jacob}}</ref>
}}

In early 1999, ''S.C.I.E.N.C.E.'' and ''Enjoy Incubus'' were estimated to have sold a combined total of 200,000 units,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://enjoyincubus.com/|title=Enjoy Incubus|date=November 9, 2000|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001109175800/http://enjoyincubus.com/ |archive-date=November 9, 2000}}</ref> with ''S.C.I.E.N.C.E.'' having sold around 150,000 copies at the beginning of 2000.<ref name="rec2000"/> Following their commercial breakthrough on ''Make Yourself'', sales for ''S.C.I.E.N.C.E.'' began to increase. By 2001, it had sold 370,000 units in the United States. Epic/Immortal released a remastered version of the album during November 2001, and in the next year sales rose to 500,000.<ref name="auto"/><ref name="bruin">{{Cite web|url=https://dailybruin.com/2001/12/02/incubus-lights-crowd-at-univer|title=Incubus lights crowd at Universal Amphitheatre|website=Daily Bruin}}</ref> The remastering for the 2001 reissue was done at [[Stephen Marcussen|Marcussen Mastering]], and it came as an [[enhanced CD]] that included the music video for "A Certain Shade of Green". Einziger said in 2011 that ''S.C.I.E.N.C.E.'' had sold nearly a million copies in the United States, and over a million when combined with international sales.<ref name="ug2011">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/interviews/incubus_the_gravity_of_our_friendship_drove_incubus_back_into_the_studio.html|title=Incubus: 'The Gravity Of Our Friendship Drove Incubus Back Into The Studio'|website=www.ultimate-guitar.com}}</ref>

===Critical response===
Critics wrote favorably of the album's diverse style. ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' gave it an 8.7 out of 10, stating "this CD successfully combines all sorts of shit without sounding like a mess. Here you have a song: it's got a phat-chunk bass beat twanging fast in back, some crazy electro squornks and bleeps coming and going, sudden snatches of full-blown guitar-jam, a rapid-fire Patton-esque vocalist (Brandon Boyd), all the while someone scratching vinyl and a drummer back there hammering merrily along."<ref name="Pitchfork"/> [[AllMusic]] reviewer David Thomas wrote that the band "manages to make their songs upbeat and danceable as well as tunes to headbang to. An admirable feat in a genre that tends to reward decibel levels instead of quality."<ref name="Thomas"/>

On April 11, 1998, Darren Kerr of the [[Vancouver]] publication ''Drop D'' praised the album's incorporation of [[turntablism]] and trip hop.<ref name="Kerr"/> Kerr also noted similarities between Faith No More, who would announce their breakup just nine days later, writing "I would not dispute that Brandon of the Jungle's evil-lounge-singer-morphing-into-teeth-gnashing-maniac vocal style is emulative of Mike Patton. I also would not argue that a couple of these songs would not sound out of place alongside FNM tracks like 'Caffeine' or 'The Gentle Art of Making Enemies'. However, guitarist Michael Einzinger and bassist Alex Katunich are mining a groove vein uniquely their own."<ref name="Kerr"/> ''[[CMJ|CMJ New Music Report]]'' wrote in their September 1997 review that, "you've heard this kind of hip hop/metal fusion from bands like Faith No More, [[Living Colour]], [[Rage Against the Machine]] and [[Biohazard (band)|Biohazard]], but Incubus has got a bit more funk in its trunk than any of those artists."<ref name="cmj97"/> They noted the album "distinguishes itself from run-of-the-mill surf/skate metal by including a real live DJ (DJ Lyfe) who thrashes as hard on the turntable as the rest of the guys."<ref name="cmj97"/> The review goes on to state that the band manages to create "monstrous riffs",  saying "''S.C.I.E.N.C.E.'''s most memorable songs are the ones in which Incubus proudly bares its metal muscles."<ref name="cmj97">{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LhGxd6mX1UUC&dq=%22incubus%22+%22funk%22+%221997%22&pg=PA13|title=CMJ New Music Report|date=September 8, 1997|publisher=CMJ Network, Inc.|via=Google Books}}</ref> ''Spin'' in 1998 pointed out not only the band's usage of turntables, but also their usage of the didgeridoo and djembe instruments.<ref name="spin98">{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PeGUjNqTnGcC&dq=%22incubus%22+%22science%22+%221998%22+immortal&pg=PA90|title=SPIN|date=August 5, 1998|publisher=SPIN Media LLC|via=Google Books}}</ref> In his August 1998 review, Jason Hradil of ''[[The Lantern]]'' wrote that Boyd has "an intense voice similar to Faith No More's Mike Patton."<ref name="lan"/> He further wrote, "Incubus changes tempo and style at least two to three times per song" and "one thing I'll guarantee, is that these young men will bring home their report cards with an 'A' in science."<ref name="lan">{{Cite web |url=https://www.thelantern.com/1998/08/incubus-blinds-listeners-with-science/|title=Incubus blinds listeners with "S.C.I.E.N.C.E."|date=August 2, 1998|website=[[The Lantern]]}}</ref> In an October 1997 article focusing on an Incubus concert with 311 and Sugar Ray, Dan Nailen of the ''[[Moscow-Pullman Daily News]]'' had a positive view of the band's music. He wrote, "combining super-phat beats, rap-style turntable-scratching and crunchy heavy-metal guitar riffs, Incubus is nothing if not unique. Add to the musical mix the pilable vocals of frontman Brandon Boyd, reminiscent of Faith No More's Mike Patton, and you have music as interesting as Sugar Ray's is lame."<ref name="pull">{{cite news |last1=Nailen |first1=Dan |title=Skip Tull and hit George Jones instead |work=Moscow-Pullman Daily News |date=30 October 1997}}</ref> Matt Peiken of ''[[Modern Drummer]]'' magazine awarded it three and a half out of five stars in March 1998. He praised the band's technical ability but noted a lack of focus on the album, saying "Incubus plays with listeners' minds in Faith No More-ish fashion [and] at times it's hard to tell whether the band is attempting to dish out some serious music or simply kicking out kitsch."<ref name="md">https://www.moderndrummer.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/md220cs.pdf</ref>

===Legacy===
Dylan P. Gadino of ''CMJ New Music Monthly'' reflected in November 2001 that Incubus "dropped their major-label debut, ''S.C.I.E.N.C.E.'', the same year as some nix-metal founders — 1997 also saw the releases of Limp Bizkit's ''[[Three Dollar Bill, Y'all]]'' and [[Sevendust]]'s [[Sevendust (album)|eponymous disc]] — yet Incubus's music [was] generally more inspired and layered than the efforts of their brooding counterparts."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OCoEAAAAMBAJ&dq=cmj+%22incubus%22+%22science%22+%221997%22&pg=PA78 | title=CMJ New Music Monthly }}</ref> In November 2001, Amy Sciarretto of sister publication ''CMJ New Music Report'' further wrote, "Incubus was poised to be hard rock's bastard child of Faith No More and Primus thanks to its resident hottie Brandon Boyd's easy-on-the-ears emulation of Mike Patton and Dirk Lance's bass thwapping. But between 1997's ''S.C.I.E.N.C.E.'' and 1999's ''Make Yourself'', the album that broke Incubus at rock radio, the band took a stylistic turn."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yQhQNccylfMC&dq=incubus+boyd+%22science%22&pg=PA13|title=CMJ New Music Report|date=November 19, 2001|publisher=CMJ Network, Inc.|via=Google Books}}</ref> ''Rolling Stone'' commented in 2002 that "they broke through to the Ozzfest crowd with 1997's eclectic funk-metal album, ''S.C.I.E.N.C.E.''."<ref name="sin">''Sin with Incubus''. ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', 2002.</ref> The 2003 book ''The Rough Guide to Rock'' claimed that it was "better and far more accomplished" than their previous releases ''Enjoy Incubus'' and ''Fungus Amongus''.<ref name="rough"/> The book additionally states that it "gave the band a much smoother, groove-oriented sound. Splashes of funk were offset with driving riffage and spiky turntable shrapnel, while Boyd's lyrics began to encompass a more intellectual world-view than your average rock star."<ref name="rough">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ctjc6UWCm4C&dq=%22incubus%22+%22science%22+boyd&pg=PA518 | isbn=9781843531050 | title=The Rough Guide to Rock | year=2003 | publisher=[[Rough Guides]] }}</ref>

In 2004, David Clayman of [[IGN]] called it "fairly impressive, considering the band's age and experience at the time of those recordings."<ref name="ign">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2004/07/26/a-crow-left-of-the-murder|title=A Crow Left Of The Murder|first=David|last=Clayman|date=July 26, 2004|website=[[IGN]]}}</ref> That same year, Nick Romanow of the ''[[Daily Collegian]]'' reflected that with ''S.C.I.E.N.C.E.'', Incubus "had the potential to become the next Faith No More", noting that "the comparison was even heightened by charismatic frontman Brandon Boyd’s vocal similarities to Mike Patton, Faith No More’s innovative singer."<ref name="dc">{{cite web | url=https://dailycollegian.com/2004/02/incubus-return-to-their-roots/ | title=Incubus return to their roots }}</ref> He also said that by ''Morning View'' they had "abandoned their will to be as innovative as Faith No More".<ref name="dc"/> ''[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]]'' in 2013 considered it to be their heaviest release, as well as "what a more elastic and bold Red Hot Chili Peppers could be like."<ref name="vice">{{Cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/we-interviewed-brandon-boyd-from-incubus/|title=We Interviewed Brandon Boyd from Incubus|website=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]]|date=19 July 2013 }}</ref> ''[[Loudwire]]'' praised it in 2019, saying "before their music almost entirely mellowed out, Incubus were a high energy genre-bending band of misfits. The sophomore effort fused metal, hip-hop, trip-hop, funk, jazz and even a little bit of [[house music]]."<ref name="loud">{{Cite web|url=https://loudwire.com/top-50-nu-metal-albums-of-all-time/|title=The 50 Best Nu-Metal Albums of All-Time|first=Rae|last=Lemeshow-Barooshian|website=[[Loudwire]]|date=January 2024 }}</ref> On the album's 20th anniversary in 2017, ''Spin'' wrote that it mixes "cartoonish slap bass with bongwater-soaked guitar distortion [and] dubby [[Drum and bass|drum-n-bass]] with samples from children’s audiobooks." They added, "you’d almost expect it to have died in a psychedelics-related car accident before it reached the distinguished age of 20."<ref name="spin"/>

[[Geddy Lee]] of Canadian rock band [[Rush (band)|Rush]] was a fan of the album, and at one point expressed interest in collaborating with Incubus.<ref name="yt">{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teEOcDL2nLc|title=Brandon Boyd Fan First: Incubus Origin Story, 1991 Turning Point, Lucid Dreams, New Solo Music|website=YouTube|date=22 November 2021 }}</ref> [[Tosin Abasi]], guitarist of [[progressive metal]] band [[Animals as Leaders]], has mentioned being influenced by it, with his band later touring with Incubus in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/animals-as-leaders-tosin-abasi-10-essential-guitar-albums-597165|title=Animals As Leaders' Tosin Abasi: 10 essential guitar albums|author1=Joe Bosso|date=March 31, 2014|website=MusicRadar}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/animals_as_leaders_map_out_2022_north_american_tour|title=Animals as Leaders Map Out 2022 North American Tour │ Exclaim!|website=Animals as Leaders Map Out 2022 North American Tour │ Exclaim!}}</ref> The band's greatest hits releases ''The Essential Incubus'' (2012) and ''Playlist: The Very Best of Incubus'' (2013) both include songs from the album,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/playlist-the-very-best-of-incubus-mw0002578332|title=Incubus Playlist: The Very Best of Incubus Album Reviews, Songs & More &#124; AllMusic|website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-essential-incubus-mw0002421264|title=Incubus The Essential Incubus Album Reviews, Songs & More &#124; AllMusic|website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref> while their initial greatest hits release ''[[Monuments and Melodies]]'' (2009) only included an acoustic version of "A Certain Shade of Green", which was not recorded during the ''S.C.I.E.N.C.E.'' era.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/monuments-melodies-mw0000814650|title=Incubus Monuments & Melodies Album Reviews, Songs & More &#124; AllMusic|website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref>  In 2003, the song "Vitamin" was also featured in the horror film ''[[Final Destination 2]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/final-destination-deaths-stats-personal-injury-law-firm-1848719329|title=Personal injury firm on which Final Destination deaths are most common|date=March 29, 2022|website=[[The A.V. Club]]}}</ref>

===Accolades===
[[VH1]] ranked the album tenth on their 2015 list of "The 12 Most Underrated Nu Metal Albums",<ref name="vh1"/> while ''Revolver'' included it on a 2021 list of the "20 Essential Nu-Metal Albums".<ref name="rev">{{cite web | url=https://www.revolvermag.com/music/20-essential-nu-metal-albums#disturbed-sickness | title=20 Essential Nu-Metal Albums | date=November 8, 2021 }}</ref> In 2020, ''Metal Hammer'' listed it as being one of the best metal albums released between 1996 and 1997,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-100-best-metal-albums-of-the-90s/4 | title=The 100 best metal albums of the 90s | date=March 26, 2020 }}</ref> and also included it in their lists of the top 10 albums of 1997<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-top-10-best-albums-of-1997|title=The Top 10 best albums of 1997|website=[[Metal Hammer]]|date=July 31, 2020|access-date=August 5, 2020}}</ref> and the top 20 best metal albums of 1997.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-top-20-best-metal-albums-of-1997|title=The Top 20 best metal albums of 1997|website=[[Metal Hammer]]|date=December 2, 2020|access-date=October 25, 2023}}</ref> When ranking Incubus's discography in 2020, ''[[Kerrang!]]'' placed ''S.C.I.E.N.C.E.'' third, remarking, "for fans of the band’s heavier, zanier leanings, this remains the high bar against which Incubus releases are now measured. Given the subsequent departures from this template, however, it’s likely those early adopters have been left disappointed. You could therefore argue that ''S.C.I.E.N.C.E.'' is something of a creative albatross around the band’s neck."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kerrang.com/incubus-every-album-ranked-from-worst-to-best/|title=Incubus: Every album ranked from worst to best|website=[[Kerrang!]]|date=5 May 2020 }}</ref> In 2024, [[Ultimate Guitar]] included it on a list titled "10 Classic Albums That Defined the '90s Alternative Metal Scene".<ref name="uglist"/>