It is weird to think about the first use of the word scientist. I never thought about how that originated but I guess it originated from the term philosophy and then became a real discipline in the 1900s which in time, that is not that long ago. I thought it was also interesting that the scientific revolution was viewed with the same importance as Jesus Christ (Butterfield).
It is also difficult for me to wrap my head around the idea that there will always be more paradigm shifts. Fro instance, at one point everyone thought the world was flat at one point. What if everything we believe right now is shown to be false in 100 years from now? It blows my mind. It is also interesting that these new ideas cannot exactly be proven so when a new idea comes around, it just has to sound better than the last one and then be accepted by most of the population. There is no absolute truth to be discovered. It will always be just the accepted opinion based on experiment.