Science is disyinguished from magic in this regard: magic invokes invisible powers while science tries to ignore them.
>>Science is disyinguished from magic in this regard: magic invokes invisible powers while science tries to ignore them.<<
Bad science might do that. And there is plenty of bad science around.
Good science keeps working, for generations or even centuries, if that’s what it takes, until we find the mechanism. Sometimes, enormous advances in math or technology are needed first.
Aristotle did science by “how things should be” - modern science, when its well, done requires tests and/or correct predictions.