I personally don't have much respect
for science because too much of 'science' is fatuous nonsense and
science has been politicized for much of its history. On the other
hand technology is the genius of human accomplishment in the
empirical world.
Thanks to Thomas Kuhn I understand that good science is falsifiable and someday, when most scientist understand Kuhn's definition, science will be a more rational and respectable term.
Thanks to Niels Bohr I came to learn that all the theories of science are really explanations for the details of constants. Theory is used to explain constants. Constants are found by the methods of technology.
Even Galileo's success at measuring the
gravitational constant was the result of an engineering
accomplishment (a slanted, marked board).
The endless re-measurement of constants is the source of new theories in science (not the running of climate models on computers). The measurement of the eccentricities of the moons of Jupiter led to Newton's great equations. Science history is replete with such measurements, including Michelson-Morley's proof that the ether theory is not a useful theory.
Well low and behold all the satellites that whiz past the earth on their journeys elsewhere have unexpected orbits when measured to the millionth part. (I can't find the reference article) That variation is like the variations that led to Einstein's models. We can expect some new scientific theories when these new orbital eccentricities are explored.
The empiric world is always just beyond our grasp.