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If Nobody Cares, Then It Doesn't Matter What Happens To Flowers.

The Way Evolution Always Discovers Reasons Is By Retroactive Endorsement.

Imagination Is Cheap As Long As You Don't Have To Worry About The Details.

In 50 Years - Or 20 Years, Or 200 Years - Our Current Epistemic Horizon (the Big Bang, Roughly) May Look As Parochial As The Horizon Newton Had To Settle For In His Day, But No Doubt There Will Still Be Good Questions Whose Answers Elude Us.

There Is No Such Thing As Philosophy-free Science, Just Science That Has Been Conducted Without Any Consideration Of Its Underlying Philosophical Assumptions.