TBT that time the #NYTimes published an article saying manmade flying machines (yeah, just...flight) would take more than a million years to develop, and was therefore a complete waste of time and money.
Dogma, whether social, political, religious, or, yes, SCIENTIFIC, is never beneficial to progress, yet we seem incapable of learning this lesson at a societal or institutional level, comfortable in our current paradigm, whatever that may be.
No one can say where the future will lead, but the only near-certainty is that we won't be standing still. We will learn things that shatter our preconceived notions and make our previous knowledge seem foolishly naive.
The best thing you can do, in all things, is to keep an open mind.