"Science is the branch of study that is concemed with the establishment or stńctly with the ąuantifiable formulation of \>erifiable generał laws chiejly by induction and hypothesis". (Mirriam-Webster 1981)
Science carefully observes the behavior of things and creates quantita-tive laws that descnbe what things do under deflned conditions. These laws are executable quantitative models. They can be evaluated by people or computers to get numbers that descnbe things and what the things do.
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