Question: Why do you use mathematics in science? How does using mathematics help you?

Nick Goldman answered on 17 Mar 2014:

Maths is kind of like a language for measuring things, describing how things work and how they change. We use is to describe what we see very accurately (it’s better to say “I can see 4 lions” than just “I can see lions”), and to make predictions (“That lion is 400m away, and it runs at 10m/s so I have 40s to escape before it can eat me”). Scientists persuade each other than they know about something by making predictions, and then doing experiments to see if their predictions were right. We really need maths to do all those things.