The very point you’re making is part of a story you tell yourself about the enlightenment and the implied morally good quality you assign to the rationalist scientific method and technical exactitude prevailing over the previous forms of science and its second order effects on men. Everyone makes myths and can’t help but weave themselves into them. Everyone has a conception of the good they seek but don’t yet have and this is what provides the foundation of story, drama, myth. It’s self defeating to advance your position that we shouldn’t build on stories—in other words: Cool story bro.