... It is actually true, and backed by solid historical research from lots of intellectuals.
As for philosophy, "subjective", "objective". We see here that Sar1n has a Cartesian bias. Science concerns the phenomenal, Science can measure what is numbered and quantitative alone (materialism). Therefore Science is objective.
We have seen however in both the developments of absurdist existentialism and late idealism as well as the in the return to Aristotelianism that Cartesianism has been soundly refuted.
What we have here is nothing but the leftovers of a deadbeat Enlightenment philosophy which is alive and well in the popular conscious. Perhaps in that fairytale land you referred to it is true, but as far as we are concerned, after post-modernism, the Enlightenment has been truly discredited as the source of any intellectual innovation. "Civilization", "Objective ideals grounded on Science", the "Triumph and Dignity of Man", etc... all of these are grounded on a humanism which is dead or dying. The XXI century, if the mass uplift of Christianity & Islam in the developing world shows, is going to bring the icy hand of religion back, whether the senile "Enlightened" crowds in the Old World like it or not, whether they recognize it or not.
The great irony is that Christianity - which has been the true glue of Western Civilization - has maintained a far superior civilization for far more time than the "principles" of the Enlightenment can ever hope to.