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Mathematics is a fundamental tool to convey your imaginations to others in a way they can test it for approval or disapproval. IMO if you take away mathematics from Science, the only thing left are novel ideas (which you can also find in sci-fi novels).

Of course a person can have deep imaginations and solutions to the great science problems, but if she can't express the ideas then how to prove them right or wrong??

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> IMO if you take away mathematics from Science, the only thing left are novel ideas (which you can also find in sci-fi novels).

Math is an important part of nearly all scientific fields, but to say that there is nothing left but ideas when the math is taken away is too broad. There are many fields of science that traditionally have been developed without a lot of need for math, like for example biology and earth sciences. These days mathematics is a large part of these fields too, but in some subfields, like in ecology, many researchers use little math even today.

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