Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too. Isaac Asimov, The New Hugo Winners Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one. The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
Scientists are the easiest to fool.
They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. The real end of science is the honor of the human mind. Imagination and Science Science is to see what everyone else has seen but think what no one else has thought. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Science does not know its debt to imagination.