Science is the interpretation of observable phenomena.  Historically, science was synonymous with knowledge; knowledge being defined as that which is understood to be true (c.f. Plato’s “justified true belief” in Theaetetus; also see Aristole’s, Posterior Analytics  and Karl Popper for more historical discussions on scientific knowledge).  Knowledge can be attained through reason and deduction (rationalism) or from experience and observation (empiricism).  Post Enlightenment, science became used to signify the scientific method and body of facts obtained by the process.  The scientific method as most commonly practiced today,  is a looping back and forth between the deductive and inductive or empirical and rational (see hypothetico-deductive method). Paul Grobstein suggests another formulation of this loop as story-telling and story-revising. The loop can start either with an observations, then the formulation of an explanitory story. Or it can start with an explanitory story that suggests predictions, followed by observations. In either case the process never stops, but continues as new observations allow for new interpretations and those interpretations suggest new predictions and so on.