Galileo brought attention to the usefulness of applying mathematics to the formulation of scientific laws. This he accomplished by creating the science of mechanics, which applied the principles of geometry to the motions of bodies. The success of mechanics in discovering reliable and useful laws of nature suggested to Galileo and to later scientists that all nature is designed in accordance with mechanical laws. Modern Views on Science Bacon and Descartes were trying to provide a simple, fail-safe method for scientific study. Scientific Method Science may be broadly defined as the development and systematization of reliable knowledge about the physical universe .
Science is the objective pursuit of reliable knowledge.
Its founded on objective observation, logical reasoning, the formulation of hypotheses that fit the data and predict other posibilities, repeatable experiments that can fail as well as succeed, and analysis and review by the scientific community. Drawing conclusions from various facts or observations, e.g. the Sun will rise tomorrow morning because it did every morning I have experienced. Foundation for probability theory and statistics. Deductive reasoning How one statement may be said to follow from others, as a consequence. The study the validity of inferences by virtue of their structure, not content.