The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
“All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so.”
“You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!”