My science teacher in Junior High School, Larry Little, told me the most important thing I ever learned in science, "DBK". In Larry-speak, this translated as, "Don't Be Knowin'", or, "Science hasn't figured this out yet." It was even a valid answer on tests. He would ask some yet-unanswered simple question, and the right answer would be "DBK". That has stuck with me throughout my life... that there is stuff that science just doesn't know... yet. And, throughout my life, some of the DBKs actually have answers! Like "are we living in an inflationary universe, or not?", and other simple things we still don't have good answers for, like "when are you dead?", or "why do we dream?"
I think it's a good philosophy to follow in general, not just in science. A lot of times, even in science, when we think we know something we often get new data or new information that makes us look at old knowledge in a new light. Sometimes that presumed knowledge is slightly modified, other times it has to be discarded outright. It's interesting that you say this, because right now I'm reading two different books that both touched this philosophy also, in slightly different ways. They're not a direct 1:1 ratio connection, but there are parallel threads there.
Smallpox killed as many as 10% of all the human beings that have ever lived. I've seen that as high as 20%. Today there is a conversation on the ethics of destroying the last live samples of Smallpox, which today lives in two laboratories: one in the US and one in Russia. In 1967 the World Health Organization, along with multiple governments, pushed to get rid of one of out biggest mass murderers. Smallpox was declared eradicated in 1980. Smallpox is terrible and we are better off that it is gone. Not so much a science, although the science behind vaccines is amazing, but I put this story out there to show what we can do on this spinning ball of rock once we put all the nonsense away and get down to the work.
Heat flows from solar corona to the photosphere. Also: pizza theorem. Unfortunately, people usually think it's a trick and I somehow have a strategy to eat the most pizza.
People called me "fun at parties" multiple times because I'm such a nerd. It's in my blood to be curious and then to share my findings with others, presuming foolishly that they're as excited about the workings of the world as I am. That said, I'm always up for explaining a linguistic quandry. I'm not nearly as educated in the matter as my education would imply, but I am nevertheless capable to address certain more common concerns regarding languages in general and Russian and English languages in particular. If I know something, I'd be eager to share it.