Your exact thoughts have already been put to paper by
L.P.Hammet, godfather of physical organic chemistry (exact description of chemical reactions):
one might “... overlook the great difference between exact theory and approximate theory. Again, let me emphasize my great respect for approximate theory. [...] if one starts looking for an effect predicted by this kind of theory to be impossible, the odds are against a favorable outcome. Fortunately, however, the community of scientists, like that of horseplayers, contains some people who prefer to bet against the odds as well as a great many who always bet on the favorite. In science we should, I think, do all we can to encourage the man who is willing to gamble against the odds of this sort.
This does not mean that we should encourage the fool or the ignoramus who wants to play against suicidal odds, the man who wants to spend his time and usually someone else’s money looking for an effect incompatible with, let us say one of the conclusions reached by Willard Gibbs. Gibbs started from thoroughly proven generalizations, the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and reasoned from them by exact mathematical procedures, and his conclusions are the best example I know of exact theory, theory against which it is futile to struggle.”
one might “... overlook the great difference between exact theory and approximate theory. Again, let me emphasize my great respect for approximate theory. [...] if one starts looking for an effect predicted by this kind of theory to be impossible, the odds are against a favorable outcome. Fortunately, however, the community of scientists, like that of horseplayers, contains some people who prefer to bet against the odds as well as a great many who always bet on the favorite. In science we should, I think, do all we can to encourage the man who is willing to gamble against the odds of this sort.
This does not mean that we should encourage the fool or the ignoramus who wants to play against suicidal odds, the man who wants to spend his time and usually someone else’s money looking for an effect incompatible with, let us say one of the conclusions reached by Willard Gibbs. Gibbs started from thoroughly proven generalizations, the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and reasoned from them by exact mathematical procedures, and his conclusions are the best example I know of exact theory, theory against which it is futile to struggle.”