I feel like this is what's wrong with the world: "In science one guesses at explanations. One does not deduce them like one do in math." As a programmer who to

I feel like this is what's wrong with the world: "In science one guesses at explanations. One does not deduce them like one do in math." As a programmer who took quantum mechanics in college, I have to admit, I didn't understand most of it. Someone I respect once told me that if you think you understand quantum mechanics, then you don't understand any of it at all. The mathematical portion, vector mathematics with imaginary numbers, was the only part that was interesting to me. It seemed to me that mathematical deductions were necessary because the phenomenon modeled nothing in our "reality."