Yeah, I’ve always slightly resisted the notion that magic is just a different type of science. It waters down each of them.
You can of course analogy, and have people with rigorous mindsets approach something that’s explicitly not science, but when it’s just science with runes instead of Greek you end up with “fireballs don’t work because conservation of energy”.

One of the things I’ve seen a few things do is to phrase it as an orderly system where the system has an infinite complexity. Some deities can see the order, some can control it, and some people can learn some of the superficial patterns, some have a knack for guessing, and some get a cheat sheet of rough rules.
Spell you’ve done a thousand times might go funny because you neglected to align your foot according to the phase of the moon relative to mars.