The discovery and description of regularities in the universe, the world, and in living organisms. The development of theories to explain these regularities. Let's do the above in a behavioral context. Ways of Knowing and Thinking about the World Science is different from some other ways of thinking about the world. It is not based solely on authority or logic .
Science uses empirical methods as it is based on experience.
Science is objective. If other people were looking over the shoulder of the scientist - they would all report the same thing. Science is self-correcting. Science is progressive and tentative. This quite different from Authority based knowledge systems that think that there is nothing new to learned or discovered.