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Well, basically, it's ALL just basic tribal struggle for survival... gone totally batshit fucking loco and way off scale, but essentially, just that.
And that includes artists and scientists.
Think artists. Creating art, any form of cultural exp​ression, is deeply rooted in us as a species. There's a strong need for artistic exp​ression, both in creating and in consuming, in every culture. Tribal dances. Folklore. Giant Stadium-Rock-Concerts. We NEED that shit.
The artists need it, well, coz they're crazy motherfuckers who'd go completely crazy if they wouldn't do whatever it is they're doing.
And everyone else needs it... well, to let them have a good time, if nothing else. To occupy their minds for a while. To take comfort in. I don't know. To know that they are human. Because this cultural stuff is what makes us who we are.

And scientists? Same here, basically. The urge to explore, to research, to study, is just as deeply rooted in our behaviur as creating art. or having to crap, for that matter. When man began being man, science played an essential part. Man discovered ways to master fire (more or less...). Man began to take an interest in medicine. Science secured man's survival. We could have settled with that. We didn't. It's in our nature to explore. And just as an artist feels that irresistable urge to create art, the poor suckers who have heard the call of science more or less have no choice in the matter, I guess.
You say yourself that some science is used to preserve life. Well, who knows, mabe, in a couple of decades, quantum physics may save us all. Or be used to create a better tomato. Whatever.

In some crazy way, even the internet, and perhaps even this very forum, contribute their petite share to the survival of the species...