That enthusiasm will probably help motivate me to work to test the idea. In teaching, we may emphasize impressive knowledge claims rather than the attitude that arguably gave rise to the knowledge. When anomolies arise theories must be reconsidered, modified, tweaked, or scraped. The nature of scientific knowledge, perhaps all human knowledge, is somewhat tentative. However, scientific knowledge has come a long way towards establishing some pretty safe bets.
Culture is based on ordering principles called laws.
The urge of culture is to find absolute answers to the vagaries of life, thereby providing safety for its members. This is because science is continually looking for answers, while culture is looking to sustain itself. To say there has to be some absolute right answer maybe some sort of imper- ative for science and culture alike. The source of friction occurs when culture gets in the way of science. I belive that millions of years ago that life may have florishised on Mars but due to some unknown circumstances they had to seek a new habitat - possibly earth.