Every time a brilliant mind goes blooey you get trouble. All the mysteries of the universe ca be solved. The trouble with most, is they don't know the difference between a useless gadget and a useful one. As bad as being a fugitive might be, it's not as bad as being a slave. When humans come, they disrupt the entire system.
Science is an integral part of culture.
It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of human intellectual tradition. The motivation for man's intrusion is the eternal search for immortality. No good comes of occupying yourself with problems not of our time. Perhaps we need eternity to discover the whole of infinity.