Are we to be disgusted with science because it has not fulfilled our hopes or redeemed its promises? And are we, for this reason, to announce the "bankruptcy" of science, as is so often and so flippantly done? But this is rash and foolish: for we can hardly blame science just because we have not asked the right questions.

In: David Hackett Fischer, Historian's Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought