You can’t have magic _AND_ science … wait, what?

The idea that magic and science are incompatible is oft repeated, for example in this paraphrase of commentary on Prince of Thorns :


I also can’t understand a novel that decides to try and be almost science fictiony but still uses magic and never even tries making it all at sciencey or even gives the slightest explanation. Mr Lawrence, you cannot have it both ways! You can’t have your cake and eat it too!


This is stupid for so many very different reasons.


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