Most people don't get it.
Science, and art, and beauty are magic! Magic isn't what the thing is, it's how you see it.
Soap bubbles are magic. Rubber bands are magic. Feathers are magic.
Take feathers just as an example: Imagine a world without feathers. You can define them anyway you like, as modified scales and such, but just picture a world without them.
Lizards and snakes of course. Insects flying, maybe even bats. But no birds. A Rachel Carson world.
Now invent feathers. Propagate them virally, so that they infect the whole animal kingdom. Now the birds return, and flocks of them fill the skies.
The world is back the way it was before.
But wait! Something's wrong!
Did you forget to let the birds sing?
IOW, it's not either/or; it's both/and.
There isn't a contest between the mystical magic of Gandalf, Harry Potter, or Aslan, and the temporal "magic" of science, art and beauty; there is a deep, and mythic connection that we too infrequently acknowledge, but that the scientists and artists out in the skinny branches of their disparate reals sometimes glimpse.
Science is magic, because it is inextricably entwined with undiscovered, and even unimagined theorems that surpass our present capacity to know.
Art is magic, because it is the realm wherein creators engage in flattery of The Creator; making that which is beyond our seeing, beyond our hearing, beyond our knowing, to become seen, heard, and known.
Beauty is magic, because in acknowledging beauty we affirm the existence of, and connect with our inmost heart cry to behold, the One Whose transcendent beauty is heralded by all things beautiful. Men behold some temporal manifestation of beauty, and their hearts involuntarily leap within them, crying out an emphatic "Amen!" to a Truth that most do not even consciously acknowledge.
Most assuredly, "magic" is REAL. Without it, nothing that is would be. Yes, "magic" IS REAL, and because "magic" is real; there is FAR MORE to "Real" than you or I can POSSIBLY even begin to imagine. All that we know; every thing of which any man at any time has ever been made even remotely aware; the sum total of all the collected thoughts of all humanity; these are but the preface to a vast and inexhaustible encyclopedia of knowledge and experience, of understanding and doing beyond our present imagining, the realm of Deepest Magic; the very Kingdom of God, Himself.