Kepler, astronomer, famous creator of the laws that bear his name has something in common with Galileo and Newton as well as with Einstein, the desire to find answers to his own concerns and beliefs in the rules of the universe.
Kepler intended to defend the postulates of Pythagoras and his music of the spheres, everything had to fit in a harmonious way with certain geometric figures, what Kepler found is not what he was looking for, however it is the prelude to modern astronomy, to the formula for sending rockets into space or calculating the orbit and the exact place where a planet is located, can it be said that it is of lesser importance than what he intended to find?.
Faith in something superior was the engine that directed his discoveries, without that itch few overwhelmingly important results came about, we can find the same thing in alchemy, alchemists discovered in their search for the philosopher's stone countless chemical formulas, many of which are still used today. .
To give an example, they discovered nitric, hydrochloric and sulfuric acids, whose importance is such in our 21st century, that their annual consumption serves as a measure of the economic development of a country.
Einstein desired to find some way to reconcile his faith in God's creation, and he searched but found no answers, however his legacy is very extensive in importance or depth, it is unnecessary to expose it.
Galileo was an astronomer and it is also known that he had knowledge of astrology, Bacon, the paradox is that both are considered the precursors of the scientific model, the very same one that distances the astrological discipline so much from the postulates of modern science, one could draw the easy conclusion that a large part of the journey of modern knowledge is established on not very scientific bases, at least as far as the people who postulated it are concerned.
The need to believe in that something more, the yearning for the unknown that now passes through a darkened era, current science in many sectors is the ungrateful daughter of a human spirit that had on one side the horizon of believing in "magic" and on the other of proving it with method and constancy, now only the shell remains and the fruit is left to perish.
The new dogmas no longer come from creeds and nonsense given by a priest of whatever religion, now in many places it is scientific truth itself that is imposed as the only and superior truth, but if we have learned anything throughout history, it is that there is no single and permanent reality, because behind the belief of having found the ultimate answer, a new paradigm always ends up arriving that dethrones an era.
Time will bring again the triumph of the human spirit over matter, because our nature is adventure and risk, because we need to go further and further, and that immensity is full of uncertainties that current science cannot yet reach, once again we will ride over the infinite, astride the unknown, and before these new frontiers the new paradigms will appear that will break that apparently impregnable clay idol into which scientific truth is becoming