Not sure that what you refer to is much more than magical thinking Violet.  However both Einstein and Aristotle said something very similar which I will paraphrase.  "The more we learn, the more we understand how little we know."  Science has been very helpful with direct and indirect measurements and we must understand that more concrete laws like those of Newton were very helpful in our understanding of our world.  However, as scientists, we also must understand that some of the greatest discoveries occur when we prove that some of our past thinking was not quite complete or correct.  Science began with philosophers and the more we understand that there are no concrete answers the more we learn a little more and the more we move back toward philosophy.  This is true in Astrophysics as well in dealing with very small particles in the atom as well as dealing with the working of the human mind.