Free will and the necessary evil

[Ranjr]

Science was originally natural philosophy. At some point physicists kicked philosophy to the curb so they could have their own department at Uni, to their own detriment, because they've been unable to come to grips with the quantum measurement problem for a century now, and lately they think constants aren't (fine-tuning).

You might almost have a point if scientists weren't also philosophers.  We use the same thinking tools.  Taking so long to solve quantum gravity has more to do with the difficulty involved and much has been learned along the way.