linguistics vs science

linguistics and science both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
linguistics	Yes	No	No	No
science	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, science is a hypernym of linguistics; that is, science is a word with a broader meaning than linguistics:

Other hypernyms of linguistics include scientific discipline.

linguistics (noun)	science (noun)
the scientific study of language	a particular branch of scientific knowledge
the humanistic study of language and literature	ability to produce solutions in some problem domain