Novelists can write things that scientists and philosophers cannot. Science explains what is real and it's mechanisms, the novelist describes and brings to light what is hidden, often missed and embedded within reality. It is the interesting difference between the skilled artist of words and the scientist that poses formulas.

It is interesting to compare the approach of the novelist and the scientist making formulas. It is not as if one is more 'real' than the other, although some might regard fiction as mere imagination. The language of story is about a different way of seeing and means of showing and telling through the development of narrative and metaphors.