Your world probably has a different name for it. It still gets mistaken for being "magic" where I'm from... You wouldn't believe how often I have to correct people. But "magic" is something that can't be fully understood or utilized. Science is different.

[ And that's because... ]

It's like how you can solve a math problem, but not a fairy tale. People can only protect the existence of fictional creatures using the devil's proof... But with science, however mysterious something might seem, as long as we can observe it, we can understand it, and as long as we can understand it, we can control it.

[ So, different name, but same idea, or so Varian assumes. ]