I'm not referencing "science" as it's current social construct. I reference it as the human cognitive method loosely encompassed by empiricism. Certainly, the origin of mathematics is empirical: the counting of objects. "Math" counts as "science" from the perspective I'm offering.

I'm under the impression that people don't really mean to be discussing...the formalities of the National Academy of Sciences, but instead how humans interact with reality by a "scientific process" of analyzing and understanding reality.