Superior poets and mathematicians alike have acknowledged that poetry and mathematics share the potential to express profound truths with brevity and elegance. You may argue that mathematics is more than a language, that it is in fact a great body of universal truths. Like any language, though, it can express falsehoods as well as truths. Scientists don't believe their equations are universally true. Equations are descriptions, and no description is complete.
Science is metaphor.
The physicist doesn't say the earth's orbit around the sun is an ellipse, she says it's like an ellipse. The demographer says population growth is like an exponential curve. It's sad when someone all but boasts that she can't do mathematics, that no one in her family can. All of us can learn mathematics, just as we learned to speak. You're already talking calculus.