The goal of science is to investigate and understand the natural world, to explain events in the natural world and to use those explanations to make useful predictions. (understand nature)
Science
An organized way of using evidence to learn about the natural world
Observation
Process of gathering information about events or processes in a careful, orderly way.
Data
Information gathered from observations
Inference
Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge or experience
Hypothesis
Is a proposed scientific explanation for set of observations