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Garnabby
But can you say with much likelihood that the benefits of that sort of science (in isolation) greatly outweigh the downside?
What is 'that sort of science'? Please clarify. In general science's achievements are an increase in knowledge, so again: Any lists of the increase in knowledge found through the application of philosophy?
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Can science, from this point on, ever (hope to) offset all its outright deaths?
Vaccines and ammonium nitrate come to mind, but this is pretty irrelevant.
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Can you say that the universe's "asking price" has gone up because of some ad hoc scientific advancements. Or that, in a thousand years from now, also the future will still revere the current set of noted scientists?
I have no idea what the asking price of the universe means. As to telling the future, I leave that to fortune tellers and possibly philosophers.