Science, we generally are told, is a very well-ordered mechanism for understanding the world, for gaining facts, for gaining data, that it's rule-based, that scientists use this thing called the scientific method and we've been doing this for 14 generations or so now, and the scientific method is a set of rules for getting hard, cold facts out of the data.
Vi bliver normalt fortalt, at videnskab er en velstruktureret mekanisme til at forstå verdenen, for at opnå fakta, for at opnå data, at det er regel-baseret at videnskabsfolk benytter det,  vi kalder videnskabelig metode og vi har gjort dette i 14 generationer  eller ca. deromkring, og den videnskabelig metode er et sæt regler til at udvinde hårde kolde fakta fra data.