Is your point entirely based on statues an emperors? None of what you said proves anything and you make baseless claims about them not caring about the natural world or philosophy. Bother to read actual Roman and Greek sources of the time and you will find yourself contradicted soon (Plutarch's Parallel Lives might be of use, then Cicero, etc). Seems clear to me that this opinion is not your own.
It's not based just on statues and emperors, though that shouldn't be ignored. The Roman's never adopted the Greek gymnasium, instead opting to have enslaved Greek philosophers tutor them at home[0] so that they could feel cultured. None of it was real and after a thousand years of LARPing as Greeks the Romans made zero contributions.
