A Cynic --- to be or not to be?

"The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it seems pointless" --- Weinberg himself.

An amusing SMS exchange with a long lost friend went along the lines of:

Him: Must there be space and time in order to do Physics?
Me: Maybe not. Just their properties would suffice. The points are redundant.
Him: Not even just pointless, but topologyless!
Me: (tentatively: I'm against pointillisme in Physics.)

And I proceeded to fix a place and time to discuss this very issue... what a humbug!