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I think that you do have to do Maths and English at high school to get into Science at University. You should check each University’s entry requirements to see which subjects you need and what sort of scores.
In any type of science you need to do quite a bit of reading to understand what you are studying and you need to be able to write reports on what you find. The amount of Maths you need to do depends on the type of science. In my area (human biology) I don’t have to do much maths at all, which is lucky because I’m not very good at it!
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Are you talking about doing English and Maths at school to get into science at uni? Or are you asking whether Maths and English are big parts of our job as a scientist?
I think regardless of what career you want to take, you should take subjects in school that leave you the most options. Doing at least Advanced English and Mathematics (not General Maths) will leave most options open to you at uni if you think you can handle those subjects.
I was never very good at English in school, but now my boss thinks I’m a very good writer, so I don’t know what that means. I was good at Maths in school and it definitely helps me in my job as a scientist.
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Both these things are important, yes. Maths is really useful in science. There are some things (seriously) that are easier to explain in maths than in English. I remember at Uni doing quantum mechanics and thinking “that makes sense” when I was looking at a page of numbers, and then being totally unable to explain it to History students.
English is also really important. Though we don’t use it a lot in doing experiments, science is a social thing – we need to talk to other people about what we’re doing. We write about what we’ve done to tell people about it, and when you write well, people understand. If they understand, then can contribute, and science moves faster. As you do more stuff in school you’ll also start to realise that writing helps you think – just by writing about what you’re thinking you can clear your head and make more sense – what’s important, and what isn’t.
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Science is not just about learning about the world around us, it is also about sharing knowledge. Hence communication skills are very important, so in Australia, that means English is important.
Maths is also important because a lot of science is about measurements and trying to make sense of those numbers. Imagine that you are involved in a project for dolphin conservation. You might go out on Port Phillip Bay (or any where else). If you are on the water for 6 hours and see 8 dolphins, what does that mean for the total number of dolphins in the whole bay? Yes maths is pretty important too.
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Both maths and english are important to science. One of the basic things in science is measuring things and comparing them to other measurements and then deciding whether anything important is found. You need maths for that.
English is important as well because in Australia it is the language used to communicate ideas. And while working as a scientist may not need essays written, there is a lot of talking with other people about ideas. These days a lot of emails are sent between people and to be taken seriously you need to be able to write well enough to be understood.
When I started school, I could only speak and understand Cantonese. There was no way I could get through twelve years of school not learning English so I had to learn it even though I didn’t really want to in the beginning. When I realised that this new way of speaking allowed people to understand me, I knew how important it is to speak the same language as the people I wanted to share ideas with.
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