I will do so when I believe the benefits outweigh the costs. If I could it wouldn't be utter ignorance. Obviously, the real world is of the open-ended variety. We don't know what we will learn tomorrow. We are capable of being surprised.
Discovery is commonplace.
It should go without saying that discovery is vital to our well-being. The enhancement of life, then, depends on our having institutions that encourage discovery. We know from the collapse of communist economies around the world that political institutions have fared badly at the provision of goods and services. One reason for that is socialism's inability to cope with the open-ended world. The market, on the other hand, does quite well when allowed to operate, and it does so precisely because it is not a unitary thing.