The Solution Is Not the End of the Story, It Is a Starting Point

In science, the objective of the exercise is not to find a theory that will be deemed true forever. It is to find the best theory available now, and if possible, to improve on all available theories. A good explanation may make good predictions about the future, but the one thing that no explanation can even begin to predict is the content or quality of its own future rivals. If it was predictable, if the growth of knowledge was predictable, then suddenly, logically, you would have a prediction of the future knowledge that is to come, but that's not possible. People are inherently unpredictable. They use their capacity to generate knowledge, to come up with the subsequent theories, but you can't