what is science?

Science is a way of learning about the world by asking testable questions, collecting evidence, and using that evidence to build and improve explanations.

Here’s the gist:

• It starts with curiosity: “Why does this happen?” “What causes that?”
• It makes hypotheses: educated, testable guesses.
• It tests them: through observations (watching/measuring) and experiments (changing one thing to see what happens).
• It analyzes results: often with math/statistics to avoid fooling ourselves.
• It shares and checks: other people try to replicate or critique the work (peer review, replication).
• It updates: when new evidence shows an idea is wrong or incomplete, science changes.

A useful way to think of it:
Science isn’t a list of facts — it’s a method for finding reliable facts and building models of how things work.

If you tell me what kind of “science” you mean (school science, the scientific method, or what counts as science vs. not), I can tailor it.