Simply not true.
I'd agree with "Most"
Google Perelman, there are many more who do science for the sake of science, not to impress anyone.
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Humans are biological creatures. Everything we do relates back to survival and evolutionary fitness in one way shape or form. No one is immune from this biological reality.
Such a HODL goalpost move
Is it tho?
"Every [technology/war/bridge/battle] was all in the hope that a beautiful woman would look at the man who accomplished the feat in this way. Precisely at the moment he entered her."
became
"Everything we do relates back to survival and evolutionary fitness in one way shape or form."
so yes, you absolutely moved the goal post like 100 miles
I’m confused. Do you think sex is somehow not about evolutionary fitness and survival?
No.
I'm saying you jumped from proximate cause to distal cause.
When the above commenter brought up scientists "who do science for the sake of science, not to impress anyone", you were like "oh i didn't mean they were doing it because they themselves were trying to get laid - i only said exactly that, but i didn't mean it."
