They were arrogant and lazy because they refused to face the fact that they simply did not already understand all there was to know and they needed to observe first and explain second.
This is like when the ancient Greeks rejected the scientific method saying that if observations conflict with reason then the observations are wrong because everything has to make sense.
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No. I prefer to look at it like those that said the world looks flat but that doesn’t really describe the world well. You just need to look to the horizon. Your unit of measure may be off.