Features of science

• Falsifiability 


  A theory has the ability to be proven as false
• Objectivity 


  Lack of opinion or personal bias
• Replicability 


  The extent to which something can be remade / reproduced
• Construction of Theories 


  Building theories which come from evidence
• Empirical Methods 


  The view that evidence is gathered through direct observation and experience
• Paradigms 


  A set of shared or unifying assumptions and methods within a science
• Paradigm Shift 


  A fundamental change in unifying assumptions and methods in a science