Hello Brent,
Any time you investigate by any instrument, try your best to have a good instrument, but you still have to anticipate not up 100 perccent sure what the conclusion you get. Let's repeat again so several times whether by yourself or other people. Conclude the answers as a temporaly theory. If nobody againts it, it can be a stronger theory.
I like your sentence " I have in mind that we exist to find truths; and the reason why we study is for us not to leave life hopeless of what happens next."
One day I will hear Brent's theory like Maslow's theory.
Arunee