Science is a direction of research that allows to determine the patterns that answer the question "What will happen next?" Examples of such directions: physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, sociology, economics. Direction of research may not be a science if they do not answer the question "What will happen next?", But only answer the question "What happened before?" or "What's happening now?" Examples of such directions: history, archeology, anthropology, geography. For such a classification, it is necessary to define the categories: "it was before", "is happening now" and "will be further", that is, to define the concepts of "past", "present" and "future". In order not to deviate from the topic, I will stand on the fact that these concepts are given to us a priori. In this definition of science, there is no sign of the creation of a knowledge system. To describe this feature, it is necessary to define the concepts of "system" and "knowledge", and this is a very time-consuming proce