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[Pyrotex]

Originally Posted by Jway

1 - What is science?
> I think (modern) science is the discipline of observing, testing and forming theories based on axioms....
BONUS: does a child exercise science when walking - down a staircase?
> Yes. But it depends on factors that are perhaps of no concern to the child.

Change the word "axioms" to "evidence".
Theories are not based on "axioms" which are a form of assumption.

I was once told that everything that a child below the age of two does to other objects, animate or inanimate, constitute a physics experiment. This includes learning to walk. In a sense, I can see that. But as the physics lessons are learned, the experiments go away.