Science is the objective pursuit of reliable knowledge.
Its founded on objective observation, 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. Science enquires into the nature of the Universe and the world around us. We see interesting things and wonder what they are and how they work. For our present purpose we'll briefly define science as the pursuit of reliable of the natural world . Reliable Knowlege 'Reliable' means that when we apply it, e.g. to deduce something else, such as a prediction of some future occurences - then it doesn't let us down.