What is the nature of science?

Science is a tool we use to understand the world around us and how it works.

Science is about figuring out methods/ways of finding out how things work. It's not really about answers so much. It's like asking the best questions possible. Scientists are very critical and demand that if someone is to put a theory forward that the theory take as many things as possible into consideration as part of staying true to the method/way of finding things out so that anyone with the resources can find out for themselves first hand.

The findings people make such as in the field of biology about how animals work are findings that support or do not support a theory (like evolution). They find a whale skeleton and it has finger-like bones in it's flipper and that supports the theory that the whales ancestors lived on land at some point way back (for example, there are many more reasons than just that). They take their findings and see if they are consistent with the theory. If it's not consistent with the theory they either tinker with the theory or come up with a new theory so as best to explain the world around us. (If a whale didn't have any bones that looked like the bones of land animals then it would not be consistent with the theory that the whale's ancestor lived on land.)

I hope that makes some sense. Science is something that people describe in ways that don't really get at the heart of science a lot of times.

Good luck with your learning in science! It can be a blast.

The nature of science is how things work.