The Seed or the Plant

Which came first? The plant or its seed? Plants create seeds and seeds give rise to plants.
The reason I ask this, is to introduce a point about cause and effect. All that science is, is a study of the cause which produces an effect. I deliberately use the word cause instead of its plural 'causes', because in the theoretical sense at least, any uniquely defined effect must have a single cause, rather than a multiplicity of causes.
What is technology? A technology is an experimental verification of causes and their effects.
Given the definitions of science and technology as above, almost all people tend to assume that technology arises out of science - that inventions comes out of knowledge. That notion is false.
What nobody will tell you, because nobody really knows the truth (And no, this is not a brag. Really!), is that knowledge comes out of experimentation. Science arises out of technology, and not vice versa.
That much is true - and any possible exceptions to that rule have not come to my notice yet. But why is that so? We shall consider that question in the next post.