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What is Science?

Why this class is called “The Way of Science” is becoming clearer to me. I am learning that there is a particular process to finding scientific results called the scientific method. That Science is the accumulation of data that has been tested and re-tested through observation and experiments, and that Science can explain the phenomenon of the physical and natural world.
I would like to start with the actual definition of science as obtained from http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/science
Science is an intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.
I would like to show that there are differences between what a scientist does and the accumulated base of knowledge known as Science. I would also like to show the differences between Science and everything else which is either non-science or pseudoscience.
What you and I refer to as science is the activity of a scientists working alone or together to draw conclusions from the natural world. The work of these scientist sometimes conflict each other and sometimes they support each other. Looking back as far as we can to the beginning of scientific thought by humans, there has always been changes to the way we see the world and to who agrees on how a particular process works. There are, however, a set of stated and unstated scientific principles known as the scientific method.
Here is a brief example of the scientific method used to explore a scientific query or hypothesis:
1. Start by asking a question of the natural world
2. Then perform research on that question
3. Form an educated guess or hypothesis
4. Test your hypothesis thro...

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...rs from the questions that arise.
Now the process from which Science comes from science is clouded in mystery and can only be considered an empirical fact than a fully recognized and understood process. We must also understand that the work of scientists is science and not Science. A piece of work is started by a scientist, who then puts their information out into the scientific world, where it becomes a target for modification, verification, and falsification. Most scientific work rarely even causes a ripple in the grand scheme of things, but in some fortunate cases a scientist's work may stimulate further activity or even become adopted as an important addition, and eventually may surface usually with modifications into Science. The consequential point is that once a result has emerged and reached the stature of Science it is no longer owned by its originator.

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