Comment Re:Wait a sec (Score 2) 772
Strongly disagree.
Scientific Theory: A set of equations with associated explanation in words, stating in mathematics and natural language how something works, able to make predictions supported by observation.
Scientific Law: Outdated term for a particularly well-tested Theory. Not used outside of historical naming due to the difficulty in defining "particularly well-tested".
Scientific Hypothesis: An idea of how something might work, with a way to make or test predictions. If its predictions are tested and shown to be correct it will become a theory, otherwise it will be revised or abandoned.
This is still incomplete, since there are some "tool" theories of imaginary worlds (such as Super Yang-Mills) that are not able to make predictions of the real world, but which can make certain calculations for the theories that do make predictions of the real world easier. These might better be considered mathematical theories, but they're almost all used only in physics so they tend to get lumped with the scientific theories.
Also note that, even in biology, theories involve mathematics.