If you wanted to reduce it right down, science is just about as useful as any "artistic" endeavour anyway. What does science do? Technological advances? To what end? Improving the human living condition, it certainly seems to me (to be a bit cynical about it, of course not everything is about humans, but a shamefully large amount of stuff is). What do "artist endeavours" (in which I'm including English, not just saying English because I think Art falls into a similar bracket.. I sure like parantheses) contribute? Culture, which is undoubtedly necessary for a fulfilled life.
I still think maths is pretty objective, though. I mean, of course we all live in a little subjective bubble (I'm guessing if one were able to step outside the universe and look at it "really", it'd be a soup of waves), but maths seems fairly immune to subjectivity. The fact that a triangle has innate properties (the euler line, for example) which were "discovered" rather than invented, is pretty cool. Of course the discovery/invention thing is a point of debate, but I like to think of maths as existing somewhere abstract and comfortable, and accessible by those willing to think about it.
I still think maths is pretty objective, though. I mean, of course we all live in a little subjective bubble (I'm guessing if one were able to step outside the universe and look at it "really", it'd be a soup of waves), but maths seems fairly immune to subjectivity. The fact that a triangle has innate properties (the euler line, for example) which were "discovered" rather than invented, is pretty cool. Of course the discovery/invention thing is a point of debate, but I like to think of maths as existing somewhere abstract and comfortable, and accessible by those willing to think about it.
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