What are the assumptions of science?

Science makes assumptions about the nature of the world and the nature of humanity. We are so used to these ideas that we may overlook that they are assumptions. Before the emergence of modern science, people did not necessarily believe these things were true. Existence of regularity and orderThere are patterns and regularity in nature, even though at first glance this may not appear to be so. Nature is not completely random, chaotic, or unpredictable. Not every object or event is different from every other object or event. Some things are similar. Finding and describing this regularity is a challenge that requires persistent effort. Scientists assume the patterns are there and eventually they will discover them.Existence of laws of natureThe order and regularity can be encoded in laws that describe diverse systems and situations. Often, the laws can be succinctly stated and may be written in a simple mathematical form.Uniformity (universality) Many laws are believed to apply…

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