What do you think is the main objective of Science (as a subject)?

Question: What do you think is the main objective of Science (as a subject)?
- Keywords:
  objective,
  science,
  subject
Asked by HugoBOSS to Amy, Craig, Laura, Partha, Saffron on 13 Jun 2015.
- Saffron Whitehead answered on 13 Jun 2015:
  
  To make new ground breaking discoveries
- Laura Wales answered on 15 Jun 2015:
  
  I think it’s to help us understand how the things around us work, and to start questioning things we never thought about before.

Question: What do you think is the main objective of Science (as a subject)?