Similar aspiration is that of the historian seeking law and others in the universe. History as well as science and religion is a constant search for such law, which yet always just eludes the grasp.
Therefore, science is not a static body of knowledge rather, science is an active process that runs through ages. The knowledge of theory and positive of sacraments or the skill of a boxer are often referred to as scientific. Rather scientific implies knowledge making and growing body of doctrine with formal and systematic exposition knowledge.
Science through ages had been a product of the interplay of intuition, chance, necessity, reasoning, formal and systematic analysis of problems.