science and magic... or is it far...?

"Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality.
Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore..."

-from Neil Gaiman's "Books of Magic"

"Is it far?"
"It is as close as the harvest moon in the evening sky, as distant as a dream on wakening;
Near as a rainbow, and so remote you could walk forever and never reach it..."
"Is it far?"

-Tim Hunter and Queen Titannia of Faerie in Neil Gaiman's "Books of Magic"