When the scientist does science she's fundamentally aiming to understand, to explain reality. Our ancestors noticed a bright orange ball in the sky and they conjured up myths to explain it. But with hindsight we dismiss their explanations as myths because we have a much better explanation at hand. So the problem that the scientist wants to solve could be an apparent regularity, like the daily motions of the sun in the sky. It could also be an irregularity, like storms that occur with no predictable schedule at all. Either way, the scientist's aim is to understand and to explain the phenomena of the empirical world,. There is no cookbook with the explanations we seek, nor are the answers written among the