I didn't know if I should post this, but I felt it was an important thing to post.
First we have this:
Second we have this:
The second is self-explanatory, but the first...
Science is the inquiry into the natural world, and numbers are part of the natural world.
First we have this:
Science involves more than the gaining of knowledge. It is the systematic and organized inquiry into the natural world and its phenomena. Science is about gaining a deeper and often useful understanding of the world.
Second we have this:
S: (n) mathematics, math, maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)
The second is self-explanatory, but the first...
Science is the inquiry into the natural world, and numbers are part of the natural world.