Pure science seems to be primarily a hypothesis generating mechanism. “Hey look at this thing we found! It might be cool and it might also be nothing.” Engineering (or applied science) is a product generating mechanism. “So we tried a bunch of stuff, and now we’ve got this Somewhat Reliably Working Box. It does This Action when you push a button!”
Pure science seems to be primarily a hypothesis generating mechanism. “Hey look at this thing we found! It might be cool and it might also be nothing.” Engineering (or applied science) is a product generating mechanism. “So we tried a bunch of stuff, and now we’ve got this Somewhat Reliably Working Box. It does This Action when you push a button!”
Nope, pure science is primarily a hypothesis filtering mechanism.
It’s pretty bad at that task. Creating a hypothesis doesn’t require a rigorous scientific experiment.