You said you had proof that scientific research was driven by the desires of man, rather than the interest in scientific discovery. Where is the proof? You made a baseless assertion: back it up.
Man is the only form of life in the entire Cosmos.
You are full of these baseless assertions, aren't you?
Especially compared to the fact that we KNOW there are 100's perhaps millions of new species of life on Earth,....
I thought man was the only life form in the cosmos?
No known benefit at all.
Maybe it benefits YOU to bury your head in the sand and not try to make discoveries, but it does mankind no good.
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people
-Carl Sagan
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
-Carl Sagan