At the heart of the modern emperical scientific revolution is the idea that you should seek confirmation from the real world for everything, because the world is much, much more stranger than our intuitions lead us to believe. After all, for a long time it would have suprised people to hear that the earth went around the Sun, that the mountain actually move, that there a tiny germs you can't see that can kill you, etc.
At the heart of the modern emperical scientific revolution is the idea that you should seek confirmation from the real world for everything, because the world is much, much more stranger than our intuitions lead us to believe. After all, for a long time it would have suprised people to hear that the earth went around the Sun, that the mountain actually move, that there a tiny germs you can't see that can kill you, etc.